Quotes About Lessons

Stories provide a map that can help navigate the bumps in the road. (p.32)

Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.

the thing about lessons: you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches - being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team.

I was blessed to have the guys at Bear Stearns as mentors. They taught me a lot, but most of all, they taught me that there's nothing wrong with selling if you're selling the right product to the right person.

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

The most precious inheritance parents can leave their children is their own happiness. Parents' happiness is the most valuable gift they can give their children. Your children can use those lessons the whole of their lives. You may not be able to leave them money, houses, and land, but you can help them be happy people. If we have happy parents, we have received the richest inheritance of all.

History is story, too.

The amazing thing about books is how they have lives of their own.

Experience decorates us.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

Not everybody benefits from a misspent youth.

Tutto questo mentre stavano imparando l'unica lezione della vita: che nella vita di un individuo accadono più incidenti di quanto un uomo possa ammettere, se non vuole correre il rischio di impazzire.

The success of politicians does not depend on their learning their lessons about history or politics, but depends much more on having the ability to act on what is widely believed by the public and the media, which may include theories conspiracies or the belief that the higher prices are due to deception or greed.

We don't need lessons on patriotism from Christian nationalists. We need to challenge them in the name of the nation we actually have—a pluralistic, democratic nation—where no one is above the law and the laws are meant to be made by the people and their representatives in accordance with the Constitution.

You cannot save another person from his or her spiritual lessons, no matter how much you may want to or how hard you try.

I have made a great many mistakes, but had I not made them, I would not have learned the value of honor. I would not have learned to love and be loved. I would not have learned that I am happiest when I am working. And that I will never lose my brothers and sisters, even if we are apart, because as a family, we are one.

I was sorry I'd scared them, but some lessons you ought to learn as soon as you can: never trust a woman once she's loved you. It's a spell whose breaking takes many tries; she'll think she's through, then call you back, conjure you up out of air. And at last, she'll do anything, just to be free.