Quotes of: Important-lesson Keyword

When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.

Christopher Walken

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

Bryce Dallas Howard

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and sever...

Naveen Jain

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.

Bob Proctor

John Oldman: Believe in what He tried to teach without the rigmarole. Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistakes they bring to the lessons.

The Man from Earth

Frank Lopez: Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed! [laughing] Elvira Hancock: Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply.

Scarface

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Bainbridge Colby

Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.

Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies

No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation.

Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

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

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