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“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.”

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.”

Years Lasts Four Communication Lessons Importance I've Learned Four Years Living Abroad

Author:Hidetoshi Nakata

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.”

World Years Has Beens Stills Matter Enough Motivational Pay Journey Youth Taught Lessons Hippie Had Enough Best Year My Journey

Author:Paulo Coelho

“One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.”

Years Progress Lessons Mma Portions Karate

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.”

Years Soul Lost Party Practice Cases Lessons Function Twenties Lawyer I Realized Compromise My Soul My Time

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.”

Way Years Firsts Play Kids Used Records Figures Lessons Musician Red Years Ago Ears Jazz Notes My Favorite Jazz Music Pianist Jazz Musician Garlands

Author:Donald Fagen

“I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.”

Years Lessons I've Learned Interviews

Author:Michael Madsen

“Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.”

Men Years May Stills Use Eye Young Worst Lessons Judgment Flying Old Man Excess Mars

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.”

Years Mother Lessons Piano Piano Lesson

Author:Billy Joel

“I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.”

Years Lessons I've Learned Turning 30

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?”

Should Years Mind Has Beens Dream Lasts Teach Four Lessons Thousand Activity Judgment Operations Thousand Years Tribes Suspended Dormant

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

“I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.”

Years Littles School Drama Lessons Speech Singing My Friends Dancing

Author:Bella Heathcote

“How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.”

Years Humans Children Stills Care Difficult Sound Human Beings Teach Effects Planets Lessons Responsible Our Children Disaster Welfare Being Responsible

Author:Gloria Reuben

“I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.”

Years Firsts Doe Said Might Kids Lasts Hurt Boys Wife Heard Week Lessons Six First Time Forgotten Albums Hotel Copies Signing Invaluable Argentina Old Music Henry Viii Buenos Aires Henry V

Author:Rick Wakeman

“One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.”

“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.”

World Years Long Country Problem Faces Given Force Lessons Majors Recovery Convince Afghanistan Warfare Magnitude Devastated Haul Lesson Learned Long Haul

Author:Alexander Haig

“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.”

Want Years Wanted Mother Four Periods Lessons My Family Musical Piano Four Years Playing Music Piano Lesson

Author:John Legend

“I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.”

Years Wells Stills My Own Teacher Lessons Piano Music Lessons Piano Teachers

Author:Mose Allison

“Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.”

Needs Years War Able Lessons Horror Protect Hundred Years Ago Threat Determined Ancestor Domination Homeland Devastated Resolute Southerner Arms Race

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”

“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 didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.”

Years Made Home Would Be Wanted Asks Fun Parent Lessons Band My Friends Instruments Piano Never Quit Piano Lesson Playing Piano

Author:Andrew Hollander

“I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.”

Years Littles Care Sports Taken Five Magic Lessons Beats Don't Care I Don't Care Five Years Hats Five Year Olds Capes Jocks Top Hats

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.”

Thinking Years Humans Sometimes Christian Human Beings Lessons Equal Concern

Author:Patti Smith

“I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.”

Ifs Years Wells Looks Long Bigs Seems Joy Term Pay Attention Five Generations Sadness Fans Century Lessons Long Time Decades Pay Attention Joy And Sadness

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.”

Giving Years Matter Feelings Might Film Given Opinion Audience Lessons No Matter What I've Learned

Author:Delroy Lindo

“When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.”

Years Age School Young Lessons Young Age Choir

Author:Ben Barnes

“It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.”

Years Long Hard Enough Imagine Lessons Learning Lessons

Author:Mike Rogers

“When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.”

Years Made Two Reality Wanted Parent Lessons Musician Opposites Guitar Singers Evening Two Years Depressing Songwriters Singer Songwriters Wednesday Classical Guitar Most Depressing

Author:Andrew Garfield

“There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.”

People Years Firsts War States Forget Lessons Mass Capable Liars Murderer Conspirators Indochina

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.”

Ifs World Way Giving Trying Years Looks Has Beens Seems Today Happened Journey Changed Lessons Years Ago Dresses Hardest Guarantees Destination Rehearsal Changed My Life Good In The World

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Well, I think I learned a valuable lesson. Always take down your Christmas decorations after new years or you might get filleted by a hooker from God.”

Thinking Years Wells Might Lessons Valuable New Year Decoration Valuable Lessons

Author:Dean Winchester

“As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested a good portion of the material presented here. This lesson should be an indispensable aid to the aspiring bluegrass banjoist.”

Should Years Facts Found Teacher Students Materials Lessons Aids Hungry Thirty Tunes Portions Indispensable Thirty Years Bluegrass Years Of Experience

Author:Tony Trischka

“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.”

Giving Should Years Children Hard Play Age Form Childhood Lessons Seven Notion Educational Crucial Rome Aversion Kindergarten Early Childhood Early Childhood Education

Author:C. Sommerville

“In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one's parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as "self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.”

“I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.”

Thinking Writing Years Littles Stories Records Listening Lessons Six Guitar Short Story Twelve Teens Eleven Just Listen Six Year Olds

Author:Lucinda Williams

“It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.”

Years Kind Natural Millions Genius Lessons

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“I had some struggles later in my teenage years. I moved away from home and struggled a little bit being on my home and finding out who I was and trying to mix that with my faith and make it real. I learned a lot of lessons and made some mistakes along the way.”

Way Trying Years Littles Made Real Home Bits Mistake Struggle Lessons Findings Little Bit Moved Teenage Away From Home Teenage Years

Author:Mike Fisher

“One of the lessons we've learned from the last 25 years of terrorism is that groups that have safe havens are able to develop external attack capabilities in a way that groups that don't have safe havens are not. So we need to find a way to squeeze them significantly in their safe haven. Taking away territory that really matters to them is really, really important because it prevents them from focusing on external attacks.”

Way Needs Years Important Matter Able Lasts Groups Havens Lessons Safe Terrorism Territory Capability Safe Haven

Author:Michael Morell

“I remember my first lesson on the pilgrimage was the lesson of receiving. I had been on the giving side for many years and I needed to learn to accept as gracefully as I had been able to give, in order to give the other fellow the joy and blessing of giving. It's so beautiful when you live to give. To me it's the only way to live because as you give you receive spiritual blessings.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The span of a man is three score and 10, or thereabouts. As most Americans are not especially keen on availing themselves of the lessons contained in 6,000 years of recorded history, we have a tendency to believe that the current status quo is pretty much how the world has been and how it will always be.”

Men World Years Believe Has Beens Three Lessons Currents Tendencies Score Status Quo

Author:Theodore Beale

“The price of Christmas toys is outrageous - a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars for video games for the youngsters. I remember a Christmas years ago when my son was a kid. I bought him a tank. It was about a hundred dollars, a lot of money in those days. It was the kind of tank you could actually get inside and ride in. He played in the box it came in. It taught me a very valuable lesson. Next year he got a box. And I got a hundred dollars' worth of scotch.”

“I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.”

“The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.”

Should Years Long Reason Seems Term Lessons Ten Years Ago Should Have Management Investment Primaries Long Term Belly

Author:Richard Thaler

“Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.”

Ifs Feels Years Firsts Has Beens Beautiful Certain House Language Sound Air Months Lessons

Author:Renee Fleming

“I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.”

Men World Years Age Stars Easy Opinion Television Ignorance Taught Lessons Ten Mass Forgiving Remembered Guts Grandmother One Man Sweat My Grandmother Skulls Treason

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.”

Years Littles Two Important Interesting Lessons Fairs Years Ago Weather Awards Important Lessons Fetch Fair Weather Friend

Author:Martin Short

“I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson.”

Ifs Years Doe Reason Film Four Lessons Directors Ten Degrees Honestly Versions No Reason Oscars

Author:William Monahan

“Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.”

Years Play Music Progress Lessons Piano Psychoanalysis Music Lessons

Author:Woody Allen

“I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.”

Want Years Running Asks Lessons Meaning Of Life Twelve Hebrew Rabbi Synagogue

Book:Three Films of Woody Allen

Source: Three Films of Woody Allen

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