Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.
Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.
I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me
Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New York, took under his wing. He taught me how to use typography more visually, to push against design norms and not to rely on preconceived notions of what something should look like. I learned that nuance is everything and to agonize over the details. I have Jerry to thank for driving plenty of people crazy over the years!
Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
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