“In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.” WayHumansReasonFormSufferingGivenGrowsUnderstandingHuman NatureLessonsInsightMysteriousAcquireTragicDay To DayAbnormalMysterious Ways Author:Stefan Zweig
“I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it].” DoneFoundGivenActingLessonsTechnique Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.” MightFatherGivenSidesBornTakenStreetsFoodLessonsCookingLipsDenyEastTortureFancyRestaurantsTouchedCulinaryItalianCaptainsJointsManhattanSauceTomatoesWaiterEast SideCapri Book:Third Helpings Source: Third Helpings
“Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.” FirstsReasonHandsFatherGivenJusticeForgetGenerationsNew YorkLessonsSucceedAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechFoundingFirst AmendmentNew York TimesOur Founding Fathers Author:Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
“We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.” WorldYearsLongCountryProblemFacesGivenForceLessonsMajorsRecoveryConvinceAfghanistanWarfareMagnitudeDevastatedHaulLesson LearnedLong Haul Author:Alexander Haig
“Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.” WayBelieveHeartHas BeensGivenTalkingAdviceLessonsTruth IsHardestGuts Author:Faith Hill
“The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.” IfsHumansChoicesGivenSocialHuman BeingsMediaStrangeLessonsSocial Media Author:Walter Kirn
“Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.” Has BeensReasonSpiritualMovingCertainEnergyGivenWishRealizingChanceSituationAcceptingPathLessonsWasteWhere You AreWasting TimeSomewhere ElseSpiritual PathTime And EnergyOnward And Upward Author:Eileen Caddy