Lessons Quotes - Page 33

• Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

  Aeschylus

  Waxing, Teach

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.128

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• The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

  Cyril Connolly

  Veins

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Love Is, Giving

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.199

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• The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivation, Past

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• I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Compassion, Conceit

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul (February 27)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

  Louise Suggs

  Golf, Lessons To Be Learned, Discipline

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• There's a lesson in every temptation.

  Frank Herbert

  Temptation

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.363, Penguin

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• Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Eye, Men, Years

  Arthur Hugh Clough, F. H. Langman (1964). “Selected poems”

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• I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of everything, and I realized I hadn't asked myself one question: And then what? That was my most important lesson. I learned to think about the consequences before the action and that saves me, to this day, from a lot of trouble. If you play it down the line, you'll start making better choices.

  Karrine Steffans

  Thinking, Play, Losing Control

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Struggle, Two

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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• It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

  Douglas Alexander

  Past, Important

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Memories, Trying, Commit

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Giving, Lesson Learned, Mind

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• I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.

  Willow Smith

  Father, School, Kids

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

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• Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.

  Nick Farr-Jones

  Appreciation, Sacrifice, Player

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• There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing

  Black Francis

  Song, Kings, Reading

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• I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

  Toni Morrison

  Father, Names, Daddy

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 12, 2011

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• Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Waiting, Teach

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

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• If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Self, May

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• The lesson is clear. Inflation devalues us all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Devalue, Clear, Inflation

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• There are lessons to life That the lovers got to learn There are corners out there You know they're waitin' somewhere And you've got to be prepared to turn There are callouses that come That the lovers got to earn In the years of your youth You can't be fire proof You know you've got to get burned.

  Harry Chapin

  Fire, Years, Lovers

  Song: If You Want To Feel, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Wise, Wisdom, Light

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.334

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• And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Law, Design, Doubt

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.383, CUP Archive

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• I did learn from many mistakes. First and foremost, I learned that it is important to create a wide base of support within the LDP. In forming the cabinet this time, I included almost all the members of the LDP whom I ran against during the party election for president. Also, as a result of the lessons I learned, this time my policy priorities have become very clear. This would include first and foremost restoring a robust economy. I believe this has resulted in the strong support that I am getting from the people.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, Mistake, Party

  "Transcript of interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". Washington Post interview, www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Giving, Roles, Weapons

  Pierre Bourdieu's speech at the conference of the AFEF in Limoges, October 30, 1977.

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