He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm – not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.
When I started, I’d never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it.
I learnt a lesson that you mustn’t worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.
‘Buncha Losers’ comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre’s ‘No Exit,’ but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.
Don’t ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.
Don’t act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.
Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that ‘trailing’ an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.
Since the ’86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty ‘bends’ the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a ‘comprehensive’ deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur’an was the message of unity and peace.
The lesson of ‘CSI’ is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
If the ‘Athens Spring’ – when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts – has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from ‘We the states’ to ‘We the European people.’
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that’s a hard lesson of reality.
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
The most important lesson I’ve learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.
The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry’s class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.
When I was a model, I met someone. I don’t want to name the person. But things did not go well. I was new and could not understand what was happening. But I have learnt my lesson. I will not date any actor for sure.
With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that’s the first lesson you learn. You can’t be real precious. When you’re doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It’s a different animal.
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can’t. I don’t care who they are, what their behavior, or what you’ve heard about. You have to be able to meet the person and talk with them, and even then, that’s not even enough to prejudge them.
Most terrible memories are a lesson and don’t want them to be forgotten.
I’ve learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that’s inverse of the normal campaign.
We never learnt the right lessons. We never went to the root of the problem. Once you start politicising religion, you play with fire and get burnt as well. Another lesson we did not learn is that Muslims are not homogenous.
I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.
I could write a book – if I could write, ha ha – about how many times I’ve been ripped off lending money to people. I’m an absolutely unbelievable soft touch. Unbelievable. I never learn my lesson.
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member – women and men, children and grandparents.
North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don’t want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.
I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don’t know why. Maybe they’re afraid of what I might say. There’s probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don’t know what it is.
I was at a basketball camp when I was a kid and the lecturer used basketball spinning to teach us a lesson on never being satisfied with what you’ve accomplished. The lecturer talked about how the game of basketball was about learning to control the ball through dribbling and passing and shooting.
I have to say that the biggest lesson I have learned is to find your way to stand out.
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
No one should be written off because of their background. This is a moral proposition but it is also an important political lesson.
The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.
I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn’t. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.
A lot of the times, if relationships go badly, you concentrate on the negative. But in those situations, there is always a positive outcome that you can learn from. So, I like to concentrate on the lesson and how I can learn from this. I concentrate on me rather than concentrating on the actual situation.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it’s a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn’t, and those are the days that test you.
I’m not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don’t need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn’t, there’s a lesson to be learnt.
I don’t think I’m equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message.
I did have a very determined idea of making money. I was quite savvy about that. And that was my most basic lesson. You do have to understand the economics. It’s pointless putting in all that work and losing money. If you’re not making a profit you’re stuffed.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I’ve never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.
The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.
In Idaho, we hope to see educators using Khan Academy to individualize their instruction. Instead of a one-size-fits-all lesson, teachers will be able to focus their attention on specific students who are struggling while the rest of the class engages with material appropriate for them.
My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then… never judge.
I can’t watch my movies at their premieres – I learned that lesson the hard way.
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
I am naturally cautious so I guess I am a saver. I’m a firm believer in not borrowing money, which is a lesson passed down to me from my parents and grandparents.
