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If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
Everything don't work out for the best. You have to use a lot of those things as lessons in order to build yourself up.
The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
I have only got encouragement and lessons from my family, so I don't associate negative things like pressure with them.
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.
The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.
I think it's very important, I think for any leader as you go through a career you have to learn the leadership lessons.
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.
I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.
I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.
I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.
We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.
Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.
In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.
My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.
The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.
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.
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.
Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that's the lesson with the Clintons. Nobody gives you money because they like you.
Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.
Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.
I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.
One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.
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.
I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.
I don't think what people realize is I've been through years and years and years of training - piano, dance, vocal lessons.
As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.