Quotes About Lessons

Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness.

In Coach Wooden's case, the term "drill" does indeed refer to making execution automatic, but it also means more. He designed lessons so that players could execute the fundamentals so well that they were able to, as the opportunity presented itself, take initiative and exercise imagination. "Drilling created a foundation," he likes to say, "on which individual initiative and imagination can flourish.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Our near and distant predecessors might be forgiven for exterminating the last woolly mammoth, the ultimate dodo, the final sea cow, and the last living monk seal for lack of understanding the consequences of their actions. But who will forgive us if we fail to learn from past and present experiences, to forge new values, new relationships, a new level of respect for the natural systems that keep us alive?

Nemyslím, že p?eháním, ?eknu-li, že naše historie je jedna z nejzajímav?jších – jsme chlapíci, ale ?asto šlápneme vedle.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

Life is full of choices, ma'am. Most we live once, then move on and forget. But others" - he narrowed his eyes - "we live a thousand times over and remember for the rest of our days. What's impostant is knowin' how to tell 'em apart. And then decidin' if you's willin' to pay the price. 'Cause choices...they always come at a price.

There's no password more powerful than your past.

Los hombres no aprenden las lecciones del pasado.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything, and I understood that it could not have been otherwise. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher.

If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

Si nuestras vidas son cuentos que cuenta Alá, entonces somos la audiencia y los protagonistas al mismo tiempo, y es a fuerza de vivir esos cuentos como recibimos nuestras enseñanzas.

she has to get on with the job in front of her now: teaching him, as best she can, the business of living.

The lessons of history were hard to ignore. Every democracy ever known had failed, beginning with the Greeks twenty-four centuries earlier. They had succumbed, one by one, to all the well-known vices of the people: corruption, greed, lust, ethnic hatred, distractibility, or simply a fatal indifference.

I can't put this down. I'm reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.

I never thought that being a public speaker would teach me so much about life and make it so beautiful as well.

I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we're going to encounter in our own period of service.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.