Lessons Quotes

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.