There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.
I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.
Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.
He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely.
How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper. "
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.
It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.
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.
Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!
The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.
You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather. " Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.
The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!
A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.
God is teaching you a Lesson of Victory.
Try to look at the bigger picture. The majority of people you date will not be your destination. They were meant to be a bridge. So find the lesson, the growth opportunity so you don't have to keep repeating your pattern and crossing that same bridge over and over again. Once you learn what you need to learn and become more self-aware and emotionally healthy, you will then cross another bridge, and one day you'll get to your destination.
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness is a powerful force, particularly in the decisions of individuals, but whenever groups of people come together to make a sustained effort to change the world, you can bet that they are pursuing a vision of virtue, justice, or sacredness.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.