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Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.
And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.
The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.
It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.
My mom was always driving me back and forth to guitar lessons, growing up. She was super supportive and probably my biggest cheerleader.
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.
Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.
Being a footballer was about analysing performance, never being satisfied, seeing what lessons you can learn and who you can learn from.
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.
I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
America needs to fully grasp the lessons learned from our history of fighting radical jihadists. There have been successes and failures.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
I've had some unbelievable successes, and I've also learned painful lessons through failures so low I can hardly stand to think of them.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves.
One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.
It's not easy / It's not supposed to be easy / Most people make mistakes / Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.
Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
I never know what the next lesson is going to be, because we're not supposed to know -- we're supposed to trust ourselves to discover it.
He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.
My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.
The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.
My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.
Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.
I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.
Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.
I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.
People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.
I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.
There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.
What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.