If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
Accept your mistakes with a brave heart. Fear no one; only you know the pain they gave you and the lessons they taught you.
Failures are part of life lessons. Keep trying no matter how many times you fail. You will one day succeed.
Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.
In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.
When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
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.