Lessons Quotes - Page 16

• The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

  Jon Taffer

  Focus, Dollars, Dimes

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2016

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• Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

  Jeff Raikes

  Get Better, Results, Teach

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• Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. unfortunately we forget the lessons quickly and then we have to learn them all over again.

  Jet Black

  Sweet, Trying, Lines

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• The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.

  T. D. Jakes

  Life Lesson, Jake, Inspired

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• I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

  Carla Bley

  Teacher, Father, Years

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• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Firsts, Tees

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• 'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fear, Dark, Ideas

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• Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dream, Winter, Italian

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Years, Dumb

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “Notes from my Kitchen Table: Enhanced Ebook Edition”, p.226, Pan Macmillan

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• This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

  Eric Ries

  Important, Scientific Method, Failing

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.56, Crown Business

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• There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so youre kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When youre young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Ambitious, Mountain, Pieces

  "Coffee break with Victoria Azarenka". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. August 28, 2012.

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• When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

  Biz Stone

  Creativity, Perfect, Design

  "Master of 'Biz' Returns to School" by Melissa Korn and Amir Efrati, The wall Street Journal, September 1, 2011.

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• Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.

  Cesar Millan

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The lectures you deliver
  may be wise and true,
  But I'd rather get my lessons
  by observing what you do.
  I may not understand
  the high advise you like to give,
  But there's no misunderstanding
  how you act and how you live.

  Edgar Guest

  Wise, Giving, May

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

  Idries Shah

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Idries Shah (2017). “A Perfumed Scorpion”, p.11, ISF Publishing

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• I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Mother, Book, Character

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• When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.

  Nina Arianda

  Dream, School, Training

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• Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

  Ruth Kelly

  Journey, Optimism, I've Learned

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• One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

  Ann Richards

  Mistake, Valuable, Valuable Lessons

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• Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.

  Michelle Cruz

  Adversity, Lessons To Be Learned, Growth

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• Nothing that occurs in life is random or without purpose. Lessons were found within each event in our lives that, positive or negative, ultimately instilled a peaceful mind in us.

  Michelle Cruz

  Peaceful, Mind, Events

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• New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.

  Alison Fell

  New York, Voice, Silence

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• My mother gave me a choice. She said, 'Would you like to take singing lessons or piano.' I'm glad I chose piano.

  McCoy Tyner

  Mother, Piano, Choices

  Interview with Russ Musto, www.allaboutjazz.com. December 17, 2003.

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• The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Creativity, Past

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• The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.

  Robert Breault

  Friday, Time, Giving

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