Lessons Quotes - Page 17

• The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.

  Oliver DeMille

  Powerful, Real, Study

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• It's a time in my life that I'm glad it's behind me. I've had time to reflect on the whole thing. I want to talk about it one time and kind of lay it to rest. I'm ready to put it behind me. I've learned my lesson. I don't recommend the experience I had to anyone, really. It's not something that was fun. It's not a destination you would choose.

  Jayson Werth

  Fun, Jail, Want

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• Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

  Al Jourgensen

  Shapes, Pay, Today

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• The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

  Randall L. Stephenson

  Internet, Audience

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• I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

  Chad Smith

  Work Out, Black, Band

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• In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Thinking, Numbers

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving the room.

  Tina Sloan

  Simple, Games, Careers

  Tina Sloan (2010). “Changing Shoes: Staying in the Game with Style, Humor, and Grace”, p.63, Penguin

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• The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

  Gary Snyder

  Journey, Hiking, Sauntering

  Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison (2010). “The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild”, p.13, Counterpoint Press

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• The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Fall, Angel

  George Whitefield (2012). “The Lord Our Righteousness”, p.8, Curiosmith

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• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Time, Couple, Dad

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• Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Country, Successful, Years

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• Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

  Carol Bellamy

  Vision, Spurs, World

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• What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You move to a new area, you really need to be sure of what the laws and penalties are. You hear those things. You hear, 'Don't speed in Virginia' when you get here, just in casual conversations. What's left out is why you don't speed in Virginia. I learned the hard way, that's for sure.

  Jayson Werth

  Moving, Thinking, Law

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• Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Book, Power, People

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• To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Life Lesson, Struggle, Acceptance

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• Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Eye, Blessing

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• I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and a somewhat ineffective way of teaching, since the students rely on their notes and do not exercise either their judgment or their memory, In this way, their minds remain empty while they pile up papers which they will perhaps never look at again.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Memories, Teaching

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• God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

  Susan Crandall

  Jobs, Giving, Soul

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• Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

  David James

  Dream, Sibling, Life Lesson

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• I would like to you to become rooted into the earth. I am perfectly in agreement with Friedrich Nietzsche who says: "I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe in those who speak of other worldly hopes!" Learn your first lesson of trust by trusting the earth. It is your home right now!

  Rajneesh

  Brother, Believe, Home

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• To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

  Will Graham

  Blessing, Grandfather, Dying

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• I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.

  Bob Parsons

  Past, Way, Improvement

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• The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Character, Lifts, Our Lives

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• To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Demand, Faces

  Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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• When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

  Horace

  Teacher, Teaching, Moral

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