"The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
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"It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do."
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"Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons."
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"A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum."
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"The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had."
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"God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons."
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"It's important to learn the right lessons from the past."
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"North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'"
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"The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work."
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"Wounds make better lessons than lectures."
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"It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets."
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"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."
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"All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy."
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"The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons."
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"Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?"
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"The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history."
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"All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court."
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"I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going."
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"I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation."
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"The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything."
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