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There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also.
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.
I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.
I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.
One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Have I ever had dance lessons? I'm mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.
Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.
I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.
If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."
The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.
I'm actually thinking about acting lessons. If somebody says to me, 'You can be in the movies,' I'd be pretty happy.
I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
My advice to new artists is to forget about all of this and take acting and dancing lessons and become a video star.
The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'
The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.
Jeff and Mike had taken drum lessons at a young age. When the Beatles came out in '64, we all wanted to play guitar.
I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.'
It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.
Many beach locales offer surf lessons, and you get a different perspective of the ocean when you're out on the water.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".
The hardest moments of your life in your 20s will provide some of the greatest lessons that will come in handy later.
Over the course of 19 years on the Supreme Court, I learned some lessons about the Constitution of the United States.
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.
You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.
We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing.
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'