Quotes About Lessons

When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me.

I get to teach my daughter what I've learned. I don't want her to feel she has to be a certain way to impress society. If she wants to spit or go play some ball, I'll be so proud, because that's who I am, and that's a real person.

There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn't know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn't find it. There was nothing.

Sondheim's work especially, and musical theater like that, just spoke to me so much and taught me so many lessons.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Four-fifths of the world's people consider life a trial, a tribulation, a time of testing, a karmic debt that must be paid, a school with harsh lessons that must be learned, and, in general, an experience to be endured while awaiting the real joy, which is after death. It is a shame that so many of you think this way.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

Dog Training by Lew Burke

Arthur Joseph (for voice lessons, infinite wisdom, and an eye-opening Esalen retreat)

And because no one ever understands a word I say—my voice is too fast, quiet, and mumbly—I started taking weekly private lessons in speech and singing.

Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are.