Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.
Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service.
I think playing somebody who’s schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you can’t rely on your technique, your external stuff. You’ve really gotta look inward, in a way.
Angel of Death’ is like a history lesson, but as soon as we released it everybody was calling us Nazis. Our singer’s a dark-skinned Chilean, there’s no way we’re fascists.
The important lesson for the children was that they know if there is a problem, they can tell us, we can talk about it, and we can resolve it. That’s what families do. You face things, and you deal with them, and you move on together.
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
You want a lesson? I’ll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father’s from Puerto Rico. My mother’s from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
You know what ‘FAILING’ stands for? It stands for ‘Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.’
I’ve learned the lesson that when you’re in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you’re in a bad situation and it seems like it’s the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it’s not.
The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade – and be open and honest. That’s the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.
The lesson I learned from the Cung Le fight is this: What we do is very dangerous and really shouldn’t be played with. I should have just knocked him out, not let him dance around and look good.
I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I’ll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.
Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable.
Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe we should boycott the show and pressure advertisers to do the same. Or maybe the Academy should learn the lesson of history and change because it’s the right thing to do.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
I played ping-pong with Prince. That’s pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he’s great. He’s a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
If I’d trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I’ve got it.
I think there’s a lesson in everything.
Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn’t change a thing!
One must know the so-called ‘lesson of a downpour.’ A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I’m prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.
If I can make someone laugh while sending a message, that’s the best lesson.
You can’t get mad at weather because weather’s not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees – to do all I could for them when the times were good.
The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they’re doing something that is unorthodox.
In my view, the most important lesson we can learn from Dr. King is not what he said at the March on Washington but what he said and did after the march. In the years following the march, he did not play politics to see what crumbs a fundamentally corrupt system might toss to the beggars for justice.
I think that was the biggest learning lesson for me. I realized I can’t be anything for anyone else if I’m not the best me for me. Now I just hope to kind of be that message for young girls to focus on yourself first always. Young people, I should say.
I took the fear of marriage from my parents’ relationship, because I didn’t want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn’t carry it on into their own marriages.
In film schools of the future, professors will teach ‘Tammy’ as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.
The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.
The biggest lesson that I’ve learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.
Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather’s funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather’s life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that’s a powerful lesson.
Whenever I’m asked about the greatest lesson I’ve learned, my response is, ‘Happiness is a choice I make.’
My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it’s true.
I think one of the things about listening is that it’s always at its most powerful when it’s present, when it’s right here, when it’s right now. And that’s a lesson about improv that I think just made me a much more social person.
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
I’ve gotten emails from people who purchased items from an infomercial, only to find out that the shipping was more expensive than the item itself. The lesson: If you truly want to order something you see on TV, go online to the product’s website and see if you can find out more information.
Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That’s France.
The finest lesson I’ve learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I’m judging myself.
Although she was not a politician, my grandmother gave me the most important lesson I’ve ever received and one I carry with me today. That all you need to be successful in life is three things: your wishbone to dream big, your jawbone to speak the truth, and your backbone to persevere through it all.
I’ve never been interested in watching or reading anything because it’s the hero’s story. I don’t feel the need to be inspired by the character or learn a lesson. I feel the need to be engaged by them.
That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re in it.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Because I’ve been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I’ve learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.
