Lessons Quotes

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

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

You reflect on the people who used to be in your life, and it's like, 'Wow, I can't believe that person was ever really in my life.' But people are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

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

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.