The first lesson of politics or, at least, democracy is that it is a government by the people and for the people, isn’t it? What makes the person a big leader or a big name is only what the person has done for the people.
I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see ‘Antony-Cleopatra’ at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.
I learned a valuable lesson doing ‘Mr. Sunshine,’ which is that I didn’t want to be in charge because it’s too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It’s like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.
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.
The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that’s really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.
If there is any message in the ‘Wimpy Kid’ books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction… Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I’m writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.
I’ve talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that’s what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I’ve learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.
When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
It’s not easy being Hugh Jackman, but he wears the attention better than anyone I’ve ever met. He treats every person he meets the same and finds joy in everything he does. The lesson I’ve learned is that if you work incredibly hard, and you’re nice to everybody, you’ll be fine.
My daddy – whenever he wanted to teach us a lesson, he’d tell us a story. It’s an Old South tradition.
There’s a good lesson for policymakers: It’s not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it’s the type of presence we bring.
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it’s The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
I learned early on that ‘Billy on the Street’ is a great lesson in ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover.’
The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.
I have learned a lot of interesting things about nutrition in my cricket career but the biggest lesson of all is to ensure your healthy eating habits are sustainable. The best way to eat healthily is to think of nutrition as a lifestyle, not as a diet.
The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.
I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong’s home and play records. It was a lesson, like going to school at night. Ella Fitzgerald was an inspiration, too, a unique artist. When you had an opportunity to be with people like them, you cherished it.
I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I’ll never do that again. It wasn’t pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it’s like, ‘Look how cool they are,’ but it’s just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating – but then I realized he was the one cheating.
People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it’s no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.
The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don’t give them the resources that would help them.
Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It’s been a huge life lesson for me.
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it’s the brain wiring that I’m more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that’s been proposed.
Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.
I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.
I never challenged the ICC verdict. This means I accepted my punishment. It is mentioned in Islamic law that you have got to be punished if you commit a mistake. What is important is that I have learnt my lesson.
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
The first lesson is that you can’t lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can’t win a war if you haven’t.
A clear lesson of history is that a ‘sine qua non’ for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
I’ve always tried to control everything and every aspect of my life, and this is maybe the biggest lesson I’ve learnt with motherhood – you just can’t control everything, and I’m much more relaxed now about unexpected changes and things that happen.
Everything that happens in your life is a lesson learned.
I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
Who wants to miss their opportunity of playing in a Major… A golfer’s career is all about it. The lesson I have learnt is that I will tee up for the Majors only when I am 100 percent fit.
Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.
When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
When you hear Beast Mode, you automatically go to my size, but I always say the strongest thing I own is not my chest, my legs, not my arms. It’s my mind. It’s that mindset that says: Look, you’re not always going to succeed but don’t take it as a loss, take it as a lesson. That’s the mindset of Beast Mode.
When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn’t care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward.
The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.
The lesson of the Scott Walker, Rick Perry, and Bobby Jindal failures is simple: You can’t run a presidential campaign from the undercard stage.
Learning to appreciate those things that aren’t related to success has proved the biggest lesson.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
The hardest lesson to learn always is to just have faith in that you will always have something to say or a story to tell. I have faith that I’ll be able to continue to tell stories, write and tell stories. You just need to keep going at it.
The great lesson I get from ‘Moby-Dick’ is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It’s through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
I’m from a generation of women that shattered the glass ceiling. We didn’t wait for doors to open. The lesson I learned is that you need to open some doors for yourself in pursuit of career advancement.
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother’s advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.
It’s tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.
I’ve always felt mixed race. Or as my music teacher said during a lesson: ‘You are a mulatto.’ I always felt there were white people, black, and then people like me in the middle.
My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she’s like, ‘Do you want to take a riding lesson?’ I thought, ‘Oh, gross, dirty.’ She was like, ‘Okay.’ And then I did, and now I’m the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can’t get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.
Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.
I don’t want to do a history lesson. I don’t think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.
