Quotes About Lessons

The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

History has a clear and distinct voice, but it does not force itself upon us uninvited. History

Failures can be called 'strengtheners' as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach.

Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!

My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that's what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.

Las lecciones que enseñas deben ser silenciosas, o no serán eficaces.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

It was John Flavel who said to his congregation in England, some three hundred years ago, "Some providences of God, like Hebrew letters, are best understood backwards.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.

Sometimes the greatest messages come out of the greatest messes."

History repeating itself is history's oldest story.

It is not enough to wish for a better world for the children. It is not enough to shield them with ease and comfort. Lostara Yil, if we do not sacrifice our own ease, our own comfort, to make the future's world a better one, then we curse our own children. We leave them a misery they do not deserve; we leave them a host of lessons unearned.

But lessons only became lessons when one has reached the state of humility required to heed them.

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.

Every life a legacy, every small business a school.