I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.

History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!

People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.

Life is a wonderful teacher who teaches us every lesson about how to survive in this world.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.

Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

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