Quotes of: Life-lesson Keyword

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Ir...

William Hague

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

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

Maybe life is like a walking safari. If you venture out expecting lions and leopards all the time you’ll almost always never find them. Maybe the best things are the ones you never knew you wanted to see. The ones that, scary as they may seem, were...

Life Is Like A Walking Safari

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

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

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

Jack Irons

You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word.

22 Shelters: Lessons From Letters

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.

Alice Brown's Lessons in the Curious Art of Dating