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“The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.”

Mother Father Strong Lessons Invisible Rooted Mother And Father

Author:Dan Rather

“The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.”

Men Made Different Three Father Moral Class Taught Lessons Intellectual Impression Lasting One Man Uncles Lasting Impressions

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.”

Years Teach Students College Higher Lessons Benefits Increase Math Higher Education Dividends Tuition College Students

Author:Jodi Rell

“One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.”

May Matter Motivational Cutting Willing Discipline Lessons Athlete I've Learned Life Lesson Be You Self Discipline Athletic Athletics

Book:The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph

Source: The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph

“This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.”

Way Years Has Beens Soul Easy Realizing Responsibility Lessons Adults Taking Responsibility Soul Searching Easy Way Lesson Learned

Author:Nicole Richie

“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.”

Study Lessons New Thought

Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.”

Long Economic Lessons Crisis Financial Recovery Financial System Economic Recovery

Author:Ben Bernanke

“I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'”

Said Company Lessons Summer Beach Performing Ballet Broadway Miami Miami Beach

Author:Rita Rudner

“My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said to me, 'I'm never going to cut your wings, so don't let anyone else do that to you.' That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday.”

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Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.”

Thinking World Believe War I Believe Community Democracy Lessons Democratic Guarantees Stability Asia Pakistan

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.”

People Years Three House Lessons Singing Years Ago Competition Coaches Locals Three Years Idols Vocal Second Place

Author:Justin Bieber

“I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.”

Knows Littles Art School Energy Too Much Lessons Singing Balls Obsessed Kicks Ballet Art School

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.”

Firsts Kind Whole Age Voice Acting Week New York Serious Grew Lessons Grew Up Singing Moved Abandoned First Love Pennsylvania

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”

Heart Advice Effects My Heart Lessons Hamlet And Ophelia Ophelia Hamlet Ophelia

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes

“The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.”

Taught Lessons Jew Horrible Conclusion Holocaust Taught Us Auschwitz

Author:Ariel Sharon

“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”

Ifs Children Parent Example Objects Lessons Your Children Warning

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.”

Years Littles Kids Young Artist Painting Grew Mom Lessons Grew Up My Mom Painter Piano Little Kid Piano Lesson Playing Piano

Author:Mike Shinoda

“Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.”

Leader Becoming Lessons Belly Great Leader

Author:Simon Sinek

“Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.”

Giving Writing May Book Matter Courses Steps Teach Subjects Lessons Offers Be Good Experts Academic Explaining Subject Matter

Author:Simon Sinek

“It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.”

People Knows World Facts Asks Answers Example Lessons Directors Opposites Fortune Curiosity Guides Load Good Fortune Childlike Guide Me Rouge

Author:Simon Sinek

“Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.”

Ifs Way Young Girl Support Saws Lessons Instinct Feminist Following Bores Imitating

Author:Bjork

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

Want Firsts Enough Politics Economy Economic Lessons Economics Economist Disregard Scarcity Disregarded Politics And Economics Anti Political

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.”

Moving Winning Voice Party Week Middle Needed Lessons Vote Campaigns Command Ideology Tea Shakes Voters Isolated Mainstream Closing Romney November Tea Party

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.”

Book Motivational Earth Law Universe Teach Holy Lessons Atheist Impressive Exalted Holy Books

Book:The Woman's Bible

Source: The Woman's Bible

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

Heart Break Inspirational Life Amount Lessons Encouragement Including Broken Heart Life Lesson Scar Tissues Scar Tissue Calluses

Book:The Spectator Bird

Source: The Spectator Bird

“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.”

Literature Teach Lessons Repetition

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.”

World Want Matter Kids Wanted Behinds Lessons Legacy

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.”

Heart Stories Wisdom Passion Literature Power Lessons Capture Groundwork

Author:Laurence Sterne

“The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.”

Firsts Lessons Messages Unity

Author:Cat Stevens

“Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.”

Thinking Years Country Action Used Lessons Research Our Future Celebration Reign

Author:Bhumibol Adulyadej

“You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.”

Death Lessons Husband Starting My Husband Keep Going Badass Starting Over

Author:Meryl Streep

“A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.”

Ifs Wells Simple Deals Teach Lessons Good Things Finance Consumers Agency

Author:James Surowiecki

“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.”

Way Important Education Teach Serious Lessons Skepticism Skeptical Skeptic Positive Energy Important Lessons

Author:David Suzuki

“Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.”

Kids Emotional Lessons Tables Connected Dinner Bunch Greek Laughed Cried Dinner Table Sicilian

Author:Michael Symon

“The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.”

Class Plans Lessons Highest Management Succession

Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal

“I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.”

Feels Lessons Projects Horizon Life Lesson Frustrated

Author:Christine Taylor

“I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.”

Ifs Wells May Wisdom Might Artist Poor Feet Students Lessons One Day Sitting Giants Yearning Begging

Author:Rod Taylor

“I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.”

Littles Painting Lessons Training Dancing Piano Description Formal Shorthand Viola

Author:Twyla Tharp

“What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.”

Years Two Body Remember Mother Three Sound Seeing Movement Lessons Relation Two Years Three Years Visualization Keyboards Three Year Olds Two Year Olds Sound Of Music

Author:Twyla Tharp

“There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.”

Fun Differences Lessons Smart Having Fun Gambling Harsh Being Smart Lessons To Be Learned

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.”

Ends Lessons Sticks Pity Halls Sympathy Lectures

Author:Lionel Blue

“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.”

People Men Heart Literature Lessons Respect Life Changing Life Lesson Offended No Respect Offended You

Author:Mark Twain

“Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.”

Teach Lessons Valuable Life Lesson Betrayed Valuable Lessons Being Betrayed

Author:Shania Twain

“You know that you've healed an issue when you can talk about it and you're not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you've healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.”

Knows Today Speak Gone Issues Lessons Benefits Weeping Healed Live For Today

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“All things are lessons that God would have us learn.”

Lessons All Things

Book:Trust: Mastering the Four Essential Trusts: Trust in Self, Trust in God, Trust in Others, Trust in Life

Source: Trust: Mastering the Four Essential Trusts: Trust in Self, Trust in God, Trust in Others, Trust in Life

“What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?”

Doe Fun Community Honor Lessons Having Fun

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.”

Needs Country Law Lessons Europe Privilege Driving Drunk Repeats Offenders European Countries Drunk Driving

Book:I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up

Source: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up

“I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own.”

Father Waiting My Own Lessons Horse Eight Riding Bike

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

“When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.”

Ifs Lying Speak My Own Path Violence Lessons Hatred Deceit Life Lesson Recalls Resorts

Author:Lech Walesa