I think you can always learn lessons by the guys who came before you.
I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.
I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It’s good to have a plan for your future; it’s even better to write your plan in pencil.
Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with – in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual’s life lessons and insights that we can all learn from – I am each time overwhelmed by joy.
Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
My son’s taking drum lessons, and my daughter’s taking piano lessons. One day they’re going to start a band.
We do not accept lessons on rights or humanity from Mr. Macron.
When I went to FC Groningen, I had to take my bike to training – my first wage went on driving lessons. Before I signed my contract, I was 15 or 16 and working as a dishwasher in a Breda restaurant.
I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I’ve always done and going by feeling. I’m still doing that, but I’ve learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.
My mum said she remembers me asking her if she’d take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.
The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
Once my sister was older, she and I would do lots of hobbies together. We took dance lessons and put on shows at home; tap dancing on the granite fireplace, which must have mortified my dad.
I have a word quota I try to fulfill every day, and I try to do that in the morning and into the afternoon and then go out with friends at night. I love singing and have lessons and enjoy drama, and so I am involved in that.
I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.
I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.
I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don’t think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you’re not all over the fretboard.
The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.
Kids in sports – it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.
My two biggest lessons learned as a trader are take risks and get comfortable with taking losses and setbacks to help move you forward.
Macron talks about values, but he doesn’t recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.
Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can’t play to them.
These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.
My advice to new artists is to forget about all of this and take acting and dancing lessons and become a video star.
We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
The mistakes you make and lessons you learn at a young age are what gets you to an Olympic level.
I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.
Since babyhood, I’ve always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her enthusiasm for the arts and for life. We went to museums, to the theater. While her own talent was untapped, she worked for church causes.
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi’s father.
My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.
I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.
I think one of the most important lessons that I’ve learned is to put your head down and work. Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you’re constantly working on it.
I’ve never really spoken French. I didn’t do French lessons at school, so I’m starting from scratch.
Your soul’s mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.
I’ve always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
Every day, I start with a workout; I do vocal lessons, I do piano lessons.
We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there’s as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
I was a lifeguard and taught swimming lessons when I was in high school.
I could have hidden in Boston and lived at home for three years, gone through my transition, taken voice lessons to make my voice more feminine, gotten gender reassignment surgery, and spent time to complete my transition, but I didn’t want to wait. I wanted to be in the world.
I would encourage women to think about leaders in different fields or companies who they can draw parallels with. For example, I am constantly studying the lives and lessons of leaders in fields outside of technology, from the arts to politics. There is always something to learn.
I can play the piano. I started off with lessons, and then, as we always had a piano in the house, I would play around and became quite good.
Imagine if the people who have lived and learned still had the vitality to act upon the hard learned lessons – and not just share in a conversation, but lead.
One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What’s even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer.
I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.
I’ve had some bad business lessons and learned some things. It’s not always about going platinum. So long as I know who is buying my records and I generate revenue that’s mine, then it’s cool.
All of the most important lessons about writing I learned from my father. He never set out to teach me anything, it would just be something he said casually in conversation.
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.
Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
I’m a good dad. I’m an evolved dad. You know, you see a lot of guys when they’re in training camp, they go off, do their own thing. But I’m in the midst of it. Swim lessons? I’m there. Changing diapers, teething, doctor’s appointments, I’m there 24/7.
I’ve learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it’s not complemented by great people, it won’t go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.
