Quotes About Lessons

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.

The things which hurt, instruct.

A lot of people I've grown up with have got themselves in sticky situations.

I've learned that things change. The whole boy band thing almost turned into a stock market crash.

I think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback.

Bad choices make good stories.

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

A lot of Christmas episodes feel like stories in quotation marks. Uh, a homeless guy comes to live with them and they all learn a lesson. That didn't come from an organic place.

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

But they learned to their sorrow that their enemies could not be defeated by military might alone. Vietnam was the most bitter lesson: it was a political war, and it could not be won by force of arms. American leaders, at least some of them, would come to understand that victory or defeat in political warfare depended less on American power and statecraft than on the spirit of the people in the lands where they were waged.

Creo que el fracaso está muy sobrevalorado. La mayoría de los negocios fracasa por más de una razón. Así que, cuando un negocio fracasa, no sueles aprender nada en absoluto,

The following resources are all free and complement lessons in this book. Many of them provide jumping-off points to tools I now use on a daily or weekly basis. Links to all "most gifted" and "most recommended" books in Tribe of Mentors—tim.blog/ booklist

Life's Little Instruction Book

First, you could define failing simply as having a losing outcome, like losing a hand. But one of the lessons poker teaches you is that this is an unproductive way to define failure because you can win a hand by making very poor decisions and lose a hand while making very good decisions.

camiseta en Manhattan en la que ponía que las malas decisiones dan buenas historias.

he is the author of Anything You Want, a collection of short life lessons that I've read at least a dozen times.

y qué coste le ha supuesto a la gente que has amado en el pasado?