Lesson Quotes

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

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.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

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.

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.