1,028 Quotes About Lessons

  • Author Chris Colfer
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    No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

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  • Author Confucius
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    Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.

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  • Author George Clooney
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    I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

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  • Author Jamie Lee Curtis
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    Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

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  • Author Jane Campion
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    I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

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  • Author John Cage
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    I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

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  • Author Johnny Cash
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    After about three lessons the voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

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  • Author Kate Chopin
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    The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

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