Quotes of: Greatest-lesson Keyword

need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.

The Element -inth in Greek

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first.

Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.

Father to Daughter: Life Lessons on Raising a Girl

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.

To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

Jack Irons

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.

22 Shelters: Lessons From Letters

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.

Alice Brown's Lessons in the Curious Art of Dating

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, "In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The key to Lincoln's famous employment of humor is not that he failed to appreciate the tragic aspects of human existence, but rather that he felt these with such keeness that some relief was required.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to implement.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership