What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from ‘A Place in the Sun.’ It’s a lesson in moviemaking.
I started as a hoofer and all-round chorus girl. I did my first ballet lesson when I was three, then trained as a dancer and went into pantomimes and summer seasons. Acting came later.
In ways I don’t entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn’t real for me until I’ve written down.
Like a lot of people have said, it’s not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it’s really like a learning lesson.
The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed in standard economic theory.
The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you’re dealing with tides and currents – factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for ‘constant eyes on,’ and it’s something I never forget.
People think about history as all grand gestures or significant moments, but the most valuable lesson we can learn is the enduring legacy of the small, meaningful things in life.
Negotiating isn’t about getting what you want or giving in to what the other party wants. It’s not an ‘either/or situation.’ It’s about having both parties walk away satisfied. Over the years in both business and life, I’ve had to learn this hard lesson.
We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.
When I graduated from college, I thought I was losing my hair. And I started looking into hair transplants. I was talking to my mom. My mom said, ‘You’re crazy. You have so much hair.’ It was a real lesson in your mind playing tricks on you. You can make your mind think anything is happening.
With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.
If I have learned nothing else in all my years here, my biggest lesson is you have to constantly reinvent this company. That’s how you get to be 103 years old.
I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn’t understand because I’d never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.
Every film, regardless of being a success or a failure or anything in between, teaches you something. You might not sometimes realise what it taught you, but down the line, there would be a lesson in it.
Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals – and the lesson is not a flattering one.
When I’m really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I’ll ask myself, What’s the lesson? Why am I going through this? There’s got to be a reason I’m here. What am I supposed to learn?
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.
The show doesn’t drive home a lesson, but it can open up people’s minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
I’m on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali. And it taught me one big lesson. That no matter how big and strong you are, you’re going to have to use your mind. You must think things out.
The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn’t work.
I should be more vocal about the things I believe are doing us harm, but many years ago in my early twenties, I learned a bit of a lesson. I started to realise at that time the benefits of eating healthy food and drink.
I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.
The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that womanhood is valuable.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned about myself is just because you don’t know how to do something, doesn’t mean you can’t. It just means you haven’t learned how to yet.
The lesson is the same as it always has been to the HIV/AIDS community: embrace and celebrate the progress while not letting up the pressure until there is a cure.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
I think it’s probably a good lesson for other people to follow – to not always make the decision that’s popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
I learned hard lessons, and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
I don’t want to step on the DP’s toes. That’s the first lesson I learned when I started directing with other cinematographers.
We have to destroy stereotypes in people’s minds that Belarus can be isolated or taught a lesson.
My life, my failures. I hope that gives people the lesson to rebuild their own lives.
Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
I learned another lesson from Jack Welch. It was in 1998, and at that time, we were one of the most valuable companies in the world. I said, ‘Jack, what does it take to have a great company?’ And he said, ‘It takes major setbacks and overcoming those.’
Shahrukh taught me an important lesson – acting cannot be taught; it has to be experienced.
The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.
I didn’t want to give up my Illinois driver’s license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
History’s lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
It’s one thing to be sitting in a classroom and have a teacher tell you how to treat other people; it’s a whole other thing to watch, week after week, somebody’s life spelled out to you in an emotional way: That lesson is something that will stay with you forever.
I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that’s really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve… making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
In the ‘Buffy’ room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, ‘Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,’ but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.
We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson that Europe can learn from Asia.
The corner of the ‘food media’ that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don’t really have a point or don’t have a lesson to be learned. If you don’t have a point, or if there’s not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone’s life, in my old age, I’m just not into it.
There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it’s a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing – because the next day it’s out, and if we’re stuck to it, we’re out, too.
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Heathrow expansion is an object lesson in the dominance of a rapacious sector of industry over government decision-making.
In my years as the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a business transaction.
You can work through most things and come out on the other side feeling like you’ve learned a good lesson and you’ll get better.
Lesson one, introduce yourself to everyone when you walk into a room. Don’t act like you’re too bougie to say, ‘Hello.’
