Quotes of: Hard-lesson Keyword

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, re...

Billy Bragg

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons...

Maira Kalman

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

Nancy Kerrigan

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in n...

Ben Huh

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg

I like to work hard and see the results of my hard work.

Erin Heatherton

In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard.

Zen

My turn?” asks the blond from behind me. “Didn’t you say she deserved a good spanking for her recent misdemeanours Mike?” His voice has taken on a husky, carnal quality since our introduction at the bench, and I suspect there is another hard ...

The Abduction

When you choose to forgive the same people over and over again you do so because you don't want to believe your time loving them was wasted. Bad relationships over time can become investments, that are hard to let go of. The key to freedom is to real...

Shannon L. Alder

Old habits die hard.

Traditional

People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get along with their boss.

The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful thing, a beautiful thing.

A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance

Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself

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

Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don’t bump into people without saying you’re sorry. When you shake hands, it’s supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.

Essential Lessons on Leadership

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.

Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life

Somebody needs to be in charge! They may not always like what you’re doing, but press on!

Hardcore Leadership: 11 Master Lessons from My Airborne Ranger Uncle's "Final Jump"

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.

Believing It All: Lessons I Learned from My Children

Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.

22 Shelters: Lessons From Letters