Quotes About Lessons

I've played in a lot of big matches and you learn from them.

My father taught only math.

I have made mistakes in my career by associating with films which were mediocre because I needed money at that time.

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

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

I can't rewrite history.

Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

There's some really good stuff in the way I was brought up. There's some really rubbish stuff as well.

We moralize among ruins.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

My mom did so much for us, working two jobs, driving us where we needed to go and a million other things. She taught me the importance of hard work and sacrifice.

Over the years, I've discovered that lessons in cooking come in two forms. There are the lessons that you never fully learn; skills that you get better and better at, but never quite perfect. Then there are the lessons that you only need to learn once because the results of not following them will literally scar you for life.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

They're my instructors, and every parent will understand that.

As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still a lesson my children are going to have to learn. I can't protect my kids from that.

Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

It's good to pass on stories.