Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.
I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.
You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.
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.
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.
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.
Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.
I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me.
I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.