It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.
I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.
As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.
A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution.
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through contribution.
