Quotes About Lessons

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

Startup Lessons Learned,

This is the kind of storytelling that takes place at most startup board meetings. Most milestones are built the same way: hit a certain product milestone, maybe talk to a few customers, and see if the numbers go up. Unfortunately, this is not a good indicator of whether a startup is making progress. How do we know that the changes we've made are related to the results we're seeing? More important, how do we know that we are drawing the right lessons from those changes?

history was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one's own life.

All of life's great lessons involve loss

How often the pillars of our wisdom have crumbled into dust!

Ooh, bossy medicine cat!" Sparkpaw exclaimed. "Have you been taking politeness lessons from Jayfeather?

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

I don't want to sound like a whiny little bitch. I can certainly appreciate how amazing all this was. How fortunate we were. It was a trip of a lifetime. But the success felt like a detour, oddly. A fluke. When I first sat down to write this book and reflected on this peak time of Ben Folds Five, it was difficult to identify what lessons, if any, could be gleaned and passed on.

but a lot o' molls and a lot of sucker guys. Them? Say, they never learn no better. Tough guys ain't no different from soft guys, see? They all fall for the dames just as hard and just as worse. There's many a good guy in this place that's been gave a tumble by them, see?

Of course, if we've learned anything, it's how dangerous that fragile masculinity can be.)

I had many teachers whom I remember gratefully. In

The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbley (ph) rocky coast of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very-hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line and that if we can't feel content on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit - the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times - then we might never feel it.

Las desgracias, que son lecciones y avisos de la Providencia, doman al más soberbio, y suavizan al más atrabiliario.

nobody in the world ever learns except at his own expense...

Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

The Things which hurt, instruct.