Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!
One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.
The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.
