“These results add up to perhaps the most important investment lesson of all that can be drawn from this week's market anniversaries: Predicting turns in the market is incredibly difficult to do consistently well. That means that, if your investment strategy going forward is dependent on your anticipating major market turning points, your chances of success are extremely low.” IfsWellsMeanImportantTurnsDifficultChanceResultsWeekLessonsMajorsLowsStrategyAddInvestmentInvestingDependentConsistentlyTurning PointsPredicting Author:Mark Hulbert
“God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as a personal one. The purpose of our bearing our karma is that karma is our teacher. We must learn the lessons of how and why we misused the energy of life. Until that day comes when we recognize the Law of God as a Law of Love, we will probably encounter difficulties. But if we will only hasten that day's coming into our own life, we will recognize that karma is actually grace and beauty and joy. [and love and awareness and hope! -EM]” IfsWellsDoeLawJoyPurposeEnergyDealsGraceTeacherAwarenessLessonsAnd LoveDifficultyKarmaPunishmentManifestationEncountersEmsMisusedEnergy Of Life Author:Elizabeth Clare Prophet
“I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else.” TurnsHoursWalksRoomsLessonsWeightI've LearnedLove SomeoneSweetestOne HourOne You Love Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.” PlayTeacherReadyLessons Author:Bobby McFerrin
“The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.” PeopleKnowsMenAsksCareersHe ManLessons Author:Meryl Streep
“The lessons learned on a pure practical production standpoint were immense. It instilled a faith that you can accomplish what you want if you just believe and stick together and continue to work at it. In that sense, it gives me the confidence to go into the next project with the belief that we can do it. This was an experiment in whether you can find a film without a singular conceit.” IfsWantGivingBelieveTogetherFilmNextBeliefCan DoLessonsPureProjectsGive MeSticksProductionsAccomplishWhat You WantPracticalsExperimentsImmenseConceitStandpointJust BelieveLesson Learned Author:Sam Pressman
“The biggest lesson we took was when Werner [Herzog] said in a meeting with us that the mother of all challenges is to get your film seen in theater. To finally share this film has been so gratifying. The way audiences have responded, too.” WayHas BeensSaidFilmMotherChallengesAudienceShareLessonsTheaterMeetings Author:Sam Pressman
“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.” ThinkingYearsTwoSelfMomDadLessonsMy DadMy MomDrivenPianoTwo YearsPiano LessonTrombone Author:Thomston
“There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement. I have found that to be absolutely true. My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up. I'm not afraid to fall on my face while I attempt new things.” Has BeensFacesFallFoundGreaterFailingLessonsAchievementToolsStonesNot AfraidNew ThingsStepping Stones Author:Idara Victor
“One of the biggest lessons I also learned from living with Elvis and loving him for so many years was that we're all human, and no matter what level one has reached in terms of fame, they're still human beings.” YearsHumansStillsMatterTermHuman BeingsLevelsLessonsFameNo Matter WhatLoving Him Author:Linda D. Thompson
“I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.” KindSaidPlayVoiceChurchTeachingLessonsPianoVocalPiano Lesson Author:Sharon Jones
“Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.” LittlesSometimesLessonsHarderStadiumsPush Yourself Author:Stevie Nicks
“I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.” GovernmentStudyLessonsOctoberEliminationPretext Author:Leon Trotsky
“One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.” NationsLevelsQualityFocusLessonsCreatingEducationalChinaEnterpriseVillageFacilityHealth Services Author:Abdul Kalam
“Normally if you're dating, you're looking for compatibility, and then the moment that there's incompatibility, you're like, "Well, swipe left on that, let's just keep looking." In some ways I think the same lessons apply to people that apply to objects. It's just much easier to see that lesson in things because they're these fixed intangible lumps of stuff. People are not. They can change.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWellsMomentsLeftStuffObjectsEasierLessonsDatingFixedLumpsIntangibleCompatibilityIncompatibility Author:Ian Bogost
“I've always wanted to get my share but, due to my tendency to overcompensate (work harder, push for the win more), I've ended up with more than my fair share. These are some of the life lessons I've drawn from watching my mother and grandfather struggle in the world compared to my own struggles.” WorldWantedMotherWinningMy OwnStruggleShareHard WorkLessonsFairsHarderDuesTendenciesLife LessonGrandfatherWork HarderFair Share Author:Lewis Schiff
“You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.” NeedsShouldLastsStageLessonsRight NowAncientForestsLast Place Author:Bill Mollison
“When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the bus. And how you handle that, how you respond to that, how you deal with that is a lesson to the people you are on the bus with.” PeopleYoungDealsLessonsHandleAriseBusWrestling Author:Parker J. Palmer
“We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it. But to be in a real-life situation, a work camp or a trip or some other activity with young people where real forgiveness needs to happen, that's a different situation altogether. And that is where the deepest learning will occur.” PeopleNeedsDifferentRealHappensChristianYoungSituationTeachVirtueLessonsActivityReal LifeDoctrineCampsFormal Author:Parker J. Palmer
“When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. As I'm writing these songs, I have to learn these lessons and dig real deep into my heart to write this stuff.” WritingHeartRealSongStuffEmotionalMy HeartLessonsReal Deep Author:India.Arie
“God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.” DifferentFacesSongVoiceCreativePathLessonsDifferent PathsDifferent VoicesDifferent Faces Author:India.Arie
“I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.” ThinkingBelieveHappensMoralCenturyEvolutionLessonsIndiaHumankind21st CenturySincerely Author:Manmohan Singh
“I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.” BelieveHumanityI BelieveCenturyLessonsDrawsWaveAppropriate21st Century Author:Manmohan Singh
“India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.” PeopleBelieveTogetherI BelieveDemocracyLessonsIndiaSalvationSeekingBillionsExperimentsWorking TogetherDiversePersuasionFrameworkMulticulturalMulticultural Society Author:Manmohan Singh
“I think what Mr. Trump has made clear is that he would not undertake optional wars, what I have called wars of choice, a la, say Iraq in 2003 or Libya, for the purposes of transforming another country. It's not clear whether Hillary Clinton, if she were to have the opportunity, would do such a thing again or whether she would have taken a - the lesson from both Iraq and Libya that we ought not to be undertaking those kinds of wars of choice.” IfsThinkingKindMadeWarCountryPurposeChoicesOpportunityTakenClearOughtTrumpLessonsClintonIraqTransformingUndertakingsLibyaOptional Author:Richard N. Haass
“I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.” TakenLessonsSinging Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a collection of 'thou shall' and 'thou shalt nots!' All those elements are part of Scripture.” ThinkingLessonsElementsScriptureCollectionsLife Lesson Author:Jennifer Rothschild
“God's Word does provide life lessons to teach us how to live. And it gives us beautiful poetry that gives voice to our human experience. And, yes, it does give us clear boundaries of what we should and shouldn't do so we can live our best lives.” GivingShouldHumansDoeBeautifulVoiceTeachClearLessonsBoundariesLife LessonHuman ExperienceBeautiful Poetry Author:Jennifer Rothschild
“Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.” SaidHardWinningParentLossFieldsHard WorkLessonsBaseballPerseveranceLife LessonWins And LossesBaseball Field Author:Goose Gossage
“Every life lesson is on that baseball field.” FieldsLessonsBaseballLife LessonBaseball Field Author:Goose Gossage
“It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects us and makes us human. That got to me, the power of these stories, and the lessons these tales give us to create the connection between us.” GivingHumansStoriesFilmLessonsConnectionsTalesClassicExpertsDisney Film Author:Roger Ross Williams
“When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was all good things, and then it started to turn. I very quickly learned, "This isn't good, this isn't helping me." But it was a very important exercise for me in terms of really understanding that one's sense of self is internal. I have had an extreme opportunity to learn that lesson, and I think it's been such a blessed fortune.” ThinkingFirstsImportantSelfHelpingTurnsOpportunityUnderstandingTermWrittenWeekExerciseLessonsBlessedGood ThingsFortuneStartingExtremesInternalsSense Of SelfStarting OutOpportunities To Learn Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.” SelfMomentsLessonsTennisWrestlingSelf ControlTense Author:Rafael Nadal
“In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before.” PeopleLastsLife IsCenturyLessonsPublic HealthHealth And Life Author:Dale Jamieson
“We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.” WorldMadeBigsMightHugeLessonsHappeningsCrisisFinancialI RealizedScalesFinanceDataExplosionsFinancial Crisis Author:Cathy O'Neil
“By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.” WantedSchoolLessonsHigh SchoolWork OutEightPianoConcertsFormalPianistFormal EducationPiano Lesson Author:Nina Simone
“To me, the biggest lesson I`ve learned up till now with two weeks to go before the election, and the thing I have to keep, sort of, taking myself back to kind of parse, is just how powerful a personality can be when it is as not worried about norms or shame as a normal person.” KindPersonsTwoPowerfulWeekPersonalityLessonsNormalShameElectionWorriedI've LearnedNormTwo Weeks Author:Chris Hayes
“Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.” FirstsBeautifulFilmSeeingLessonsCreaturesBiggerScalesInitiationBeautiful Creatures Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it's not all about him.” FilmStrangeLessons Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right and then you realise that there's one massive lesson to learn.” ThinkingStrangeLessonsDoctorsObviousMassiveRealisingCloaks Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.” ShouldWritingDifferentForgetRightsInfluenceMovementLessonsSlaveryCivil RightsNever ForgetExaminationCivil Rights MovementReconstruction Author:Gerald Horne
“The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.” IfsMatterPartyVictoryLessonsWinnerMarginsLesson Learned Author:Mara Liasson
“There are a lot of lessons that people can take from me, that they can start to apply because I don't think that I can beat the Democrat Media Complex by myself.” PeopleThinkingI CanMediaLessonsBeatsDemocratComplexes Author:Andrew Breitbart
“In fact, I learned on the Bill Maher show that I can survive the audience booing at me, the guests hating me, Sarah Silverman mocking me, that I can survive. That's a lesson right there for people on the right.” PeopleI CanFactsShowsHateAudienceLessonsBillsGuestsBooing Author:Andrew Breitbart
“There are some ideas that will translate from Iraq to Afghanistan and there are many that will not. The first lesson of counterinsurgency, in fact, is that every situation is truly unique, has its own context, its own specific set of factors - and you have to understand that context in enormous detail to be able to craft a sound and comprehensive approach.” FirstsIdeasFactsAbleSoundSituationLessonsApproachUniqueIraqDetailsEnormousFactorsCraftsAfghanistanTranslateComprehensiveCounterinsurgency Author:David Petraeus
“I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.” ThinkingDifferentLessonsImportanceLife LessonDifferent Times Author:Julianne Malveaux
“I've been in New York for 15 months. Winning two stars in the Zagat number one best newcomer within ten months of opening in New York has taught me a big lesson.” TwoBigsWinningStarsNumbersNew YorkTaughtMonthsLessonsTenOpeningNewcomers Author:Gordon Ramsay
“I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.” LessonsAbout YourselfTrue You Author:Erykah Badu
“My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!” StoriesFilmMotherFatherSidesClassBrotherLessonsMy FamilyDancingWestMy BrotherMother And FatherEnamoredWest SideTap DancingWest Side Story Author:Marisa Tomei
“When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.” TryingEconomyLessonsLowsBudgets Author:Jean-Luc Godard