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“The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.”

Ifs Knows Men Important Play He Man Lessons Gun Shots Tricks Hips Winner Shooting Poison Contempt Officers Frontiers Important Lessons Flashy

Author:Wyatt Earp

“If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.”

Ifs Knows Desire Understanding Lessons Highest Advantage Oneself Delight Humble Valuable Obscurity True Understanding

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.”

Knows May Light Mother Found Nature Teach Mystery Listening Lessons Scientist Prejudice Notion Dogma Passive Bias Mother Nature Receptive Preconceived Notions Shedding Light

Author:Luther Burbank

“My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix.”

Knows Firsts Two Play Wanted Know How Week Lessons Bells Two Weeks Hendrix Jingles Jingle Bells

Author:Joe

“The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.”

Knows Today Tomorrow Lessons Be Good Practicals Resolve Simplest Better Tomorrow

Author:Catherine McAuley

“Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.”

Knows Writing Kind Lessons Empathy Truest

Author:Zachary Schomburg

“Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.”

Knows Giving Mind May Sometimes Lessons Lifetime Corruption Agents Ease Mask Hook Lesson Learned High Places

Author:Carlos P. Romulo

“A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.”

Knows Should Boys Know How Lessons Succeed Ties Succeeding In Life

Author:Antwone Fisher

“There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing”

Knows Firsts Song Reading Sound Records Kings Lessons Singing Singers Prose Melody Makers Reviews

Author:Black Francis

“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.”

Knows Said Important Today Remember Father Names Perfect Lessons Yeah Kitchen Twelve Good Work Daddy Thirteen Important Lessons

Author:Toni Morrison

“I guess the biggest lesson would be to have faith in that little part of yourself that knows what it's doing, knows what it wants, knows what you should be doing, even when all the clamour around you is telling you something else. That's the part that you want to keep alive and that's the part that people want to see when they see you on the screen.”

People Knows Want Should Littles Would Be Alive Lessons Screens Have Faith Clamour

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“I pray everywhere--in the shower, on a plane, in traffic, you name it. When I feel like I have had enough, I will literally take a knee, bow my head, and beg God for help and strength. I know not to beg Him for patience, because then He gives me situations in which I have to grow more patient; I learned that lesson! And if I am having a wonderful day, I will stop to thank Him. It's a relationship.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Enough Helping Names Grows Prayer Situation Wonderful Praying Lessons Give Me Patient Planes Knees Bows Traffic Showers I Pray Had Enough Wonderful Day

Author:Angie Harmon

“in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.”

Knows Growth Learning One Thing Lessons Picks

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.”

“We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.”

Knows Hard School Hate Rooms Education Learning Taught Lessons Taught Us Hard Lessons

Author:Gwen Bristow

“I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Wells Said Remember Voice Teach Study Teacher Lessons Singers If I Could Opera Cents Belly Opera Singers

Author:Pete Seeger

“If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Lasts Lessons Comfortable Clever Fancy If I Could Inferiority

Author:George Eliot

“Im not bothered about what people say behind my back. I dont need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesnt, theres a lesson to be learnt.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Giving Believe I Believe Behinds Lessons I Believe In Gods Will Living My Life Bothered Behind My Back Not Bothered

Author:Rani Mukerji

“I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.”

People Thinking Knows Way Believe Has Beens Government Political Left Party Lessons Iraq Political Parties Invasion

Author:William Hague

“You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.”

Knows Firsts Bigs Age Suffering Parent Loss Lessons Albums Divorce Coming Of Age Life Lesson First Love Amazing Things Really Amazing Parents Divorce

Author:Brandi Carlile

“I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?”

Knows Firsts Heart Stories Passion Fiction Lessons Iron Honour Maxims Remarks

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

“You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain”

Knows Pain Order Fall Grows Loses Hurt Lessons Sad Gains Sad Love Sad Life Make You Cry Love And Sad Sad And Happy

Author:Boonaa Mohammed

“You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a whole childbirth and child-care course without missing a lesson. But you won't really know a thing about yourselves and each other as parents, or your baby as a child, until you have her in your arms. That's the moment when the lifelong process of bringing up a child into the fold of the family begins.”

Knows Children Has Beens Whole Moments Care Courses Process Parent Missing Baby Arms Lessons Experts Folds Lifelong Childbirth Child Care

Author:Stella Chess

“If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.”

People Ifs Knows Life Wells Two Jobs Wife Lessons Husband Angry Two Things Pushing Boss

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.”

Ifs Knows Humans Order Education Consciousness Knowledge Ignorance Lessons Supreme Interfere Human Consciousness

Book:Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

Source: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

“I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.”

Knows Years School Mother Desire Girl Three Know How Taught Lessons Affection Determined Three Years Deceiving Elders Mistress Mischief Three Year Olds

Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz

“I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.”

Knows Firsts Art Stories Remember Lessons Storytelling Educated Formal Telling Stories Cafes Formal Education

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.”

Knows Humans Failing Lessons Guts Life Lesson Imperfect

Author:Chris Wyse

“The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.”

Knows World Want Needs Moments Life Is Turns Worst Lessons Tragedy Medicine Best Things I've Learned Being The Best That Moment Bad Things Worst Things

Author:Denzel Washington

“One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. The head and body - you know, a baby's born inside a woman's stomach, you know all that. But to watch this thing come out and fight for life, yo, and to see the woman's risking her life at the same time this thing is fighting for life, you know what I mean?”

Knows Mean Body Fighting Born Watches Taught Baby Lessons Stomach Womb

Author:RZA

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.”

“What you learn is often determined by what you need to know. If you think you're weak, you will learn that you are strong. If you think you are indestructible, you will learn that you are fragile. In the end though, you will learn that you are human. You are no more and no less than all those who are learning their lessons as you learn yours.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Humans Ends Strong Lessons Weak Determined Fragile Indestructible

Book:Running for Mortals: A Commonsense Plan for Changing Your Life through Running

Source: Running for Mortals: A Commonsense Plan for Changing Your Life through Running

“Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.”

Knows Desire Lessons Cost Prize Wooing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.”

People Knows Answers Lessons Conversation Interviews

Author:Dave Grohl

“In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.”

“Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.”

Knows Doe Can Do Results Teacher Students Lessons Excellent Instruction

Author:Tony Wagner

“All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.”

Knows Moments Waiting Term Simple Morning Danger Lessons Illusion Golden Intimate Touched Cosmic Wands

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World War Would Be Law Universe Evil Causes Difficult Simple Steps Lessons Overcoming Difficulty Greed Mature Our World Symptoms Assured Immaturity Peace Within

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Parents are with their children almost constantly and can observe when they are ready to be instructed. From questions or behavior or because of experiences in their own lives, they can sense that it is time to teach. Parents must know when the time for the lesson is now, right now, for their children are ready for it.”

Knows Children Parent Teach Ready Lessons Right Now Behavior

Book:Teach Ye Diligently

Source: Teach Ye Diligently

“The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?”

People Knows Taught Lessons Humble Valuable Coincidence Traders Valuable Lessons

Author:Steve Burns

“I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.”

Thinking Knows Evil Lessons Devil Girlfriend Exes Ex Girlfriend

Author:Emo Philips

“Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as obstacles that interpose to prevent them from indulging in the gratification of their desires. Of this the Legislators and Hierophants took advantage, to attract the people to their sanctuaries, and to induce them to seek to obtain lessons from which they would perhaps have turned away with indifference if they had been pressed upon them.”

People Ifs Knows Men Desire Mystery Lessons Advantage Increase Curiosity Obstacles Indifference Gratification Sanctuary Legislators Concealing

Book:Morals and Dogma

Source: Morals and Dogma

“Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it.”

Knows Men World Should Believe Feelings Government Wealth Cases Happened Lessons Blessed Luck Guilt Forgotten Being Blessed Buffett Warren Buffet

Author:Larry Elder

“I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.”

Ifs Knows Kind Shows Enemy Lessons Forgiving Distance Corners All Kinds Mess Show Business Farming Nashville Invaluable Forgive Your Enemies

Book:The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

“One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.”

Knows Want Humanity Heard Lessons Understood I've Learned My Time

Author:Nate Berkus

“I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.”

Thinking Knows Two Home Lasts Sleep Family Brother Lessons My Family Empty My Brother Bottles Stomach Pills Couches Love My Family I Love My Family Paramedics Sleeping Pills Empty Bottles

Author:Emo Philips

“I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.”

People Knows Giving Hard Might Lessons Give Me Hard Times Ribs

Author:Don Rickles

“I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.”

Thinking Knows Giving Know How Lessons

Author:Chris Tucker

“The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.”

Source: On Lynchings

“I can't play any horns. Every time I tried to take saxophone lessons as a kid ... I can't whistle. I don't know if that has anything to do with.”

Ifs Knows I Can Play Kids Lessons Horns Saxophone

Author:Pete Yorn

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