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“My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.”

Children Different Mother Parent Enjoy Study Brother Type Lessons Six My Brother Concerts Different Types Of Music Music Lessons

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.”

Ifs Giving Whole Vision Seeing Doors Lessons Charity Whole Life Bread Life Lesson Denied Ovens Flour Bread Of Life Eating Bread

Author:Jose Marti

“I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.”

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

Life Long Problem Life Is Humility Lessons Live Life Insightful Life Lesson

Book:The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)

Source: The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)

“I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.”

Giving Hours Space Watches Information Lessons Program Details Missions One Hour

Author:Christa McAuliffe

“The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.”

Trying Important Life Is Fun Process Loses Wall Lessons Let Me Important Things Life Lesson Bricks Learning Process Banging Learning Lessons Brick Wall Banging Your Head

Author:John McEnroe

“So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.”

Fun Lessons Genocide

Author:Reba McEntire

“The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.”

Thinking Should Dangerous Lessons Supreme Being Yourself Conformity Absent Attainment Think For Yourself

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.”

Knows Want Feels Mean I Can Hard Lessons Trust In God I Have Learned Personal Experiences Unanswered Questions Unanswered Hard Lessons

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.”

Children Home Teach Havens Lessons Your Children Bothered Entertainers

Author:Wentworth Miller

“When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.”

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Author:Moby

“He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.”

Looks Literature Lessons Taste Profound Bunch Genocide Manure

Author:Moliere

“I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.”

Walks Inspiring Havens Baby Lessons

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.”

Lessons Life Lesson Personal Life

Author:Mandy Moore

“I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.”

Men Believe Stills Eye Heaven Rich Lessons Harder Catholic Raised Household Needles Rich Man Through The Eyes Camels I Still Believe Roman Catholic

Author:Michael Moore

“North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.”

Ifs World Want Country America Taught Lessons Weapons Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Dictatorship Korea North Korea Rogues

Author:Michael Moore

“My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.”

Important Father Honesty Lessons Politeness Toughness Important Lessons

Author:Roger Moore

“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.”

Science Technology Impossible Modern Mankind Possibility Positive Taught Lessons Technique Fallen Inherent Modern Science Impossible Things Nothing Is Impossible

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.”

May Moving Cases Lessons Right Now Remains Track China Hopefully Cycles Civilisation Sumerians

Author:Elon Musk

“One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.”

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Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”

Games Lessons Satire Parody

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.”

“All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

Firsts Enough Stars Peace Dark Four Flower Lessons Mad Sentences Bees Grind Mills

Author:Charles A. Beard

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”

Men Firsts Political Fate Revolution Lessons Revolutionary Doomed Black Panther Party

Book:Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.”

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Author:Rachel Nichols

“Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.”

Proud Lessons Golf Genocide

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.”

Kind Journey Regret Lessons Never Regret I Never Regret Never Regret Anything

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.”

Needs Looks Lessons Debate

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.”

Long Body Known Forever Teaching Lessons

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.”

Humans Littles Lessons Draws Prosperity Islands Exceptional Human Happiness

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”

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Book:Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

Source: Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

“I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.”

Stills Play Couple Lessons Beats Down And Productions Toronto

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.”

Kids Values Sports Seeing Teaching Lessons Fundamentals Smile Hopefully Hockey Sinking

Author:Bobby Orr

“I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.”

Made Done Lessons Stronger Bother Underdog

Author:Victor Ortiz

“The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.”

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Author:Sarah Palin

“I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.”

Knows Feels Years Next Lessons Valuable Next Time Valuable Lessons

Author:Danica Patrick

“The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.”

War Individual Cold Lessons Capitalism Collectives Engines American History Cold War Abiding

Author:Rand Paul

“Lessons are not given, they are taken.”

Given Taken Lessons Genocide

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.”

Should Reason Care Love Is Christianity Lessons Hardest Good Christian Religious Love

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.”

Ifs Want Feels Wells Humor Today Funny Found Lost Taught Return Walking Lessons Hundred Dollars I Realized Fifty Fifth Avenues Wallets Fifth Avenue

Author:Emo Philips

“If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.”

People Ifs Giving Ideas Lessons Experiments Literacy Bad Ideas

Author:Steven Pinker

“The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.”

Persons Regret Lessons Better Person Inspirational Celebrity

Author:Nicole Polizzi

“I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.”

Feelings Found Lessons One Day Late Clean Golf Vibrations Hooked Crisps

Author:Dennis Quaid

“But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.”

Way Needs Important Kids Remember Literature Lessons Respect Treated Respecting Others

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”

Men Stills Care Mother Left Needed Lessons I Realized Core Life Lesson Display Love And Care

Book:Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

“I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.”

Persons Has Beens Ends Chance Happened Missing Taught Lessons Stronger Driven Bitterness Athens Stronger Person Near Misses

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.”

Too Much Lessons Heed

Author:Josh Radnor

“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”

Found Study Teacher Teaching Lessons Ordinary Originals Management Excellence Profound Insight Retirement Mediocrity Exemplary

Book:Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Source: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

“A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.”

Inspirational Wells Wish Advice Lessons Tough Life Lesson Wish You Negative People Well Wishes Learning The Hard Way Wishing You Well

Author:Dan Rather

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