Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this. "
Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
You will understand why when you look back, the answers are rarely given in the middle of the lesson.
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. I was all of 16 when I had my first guitar lesson with Joe. But I never focused on being a bebop player. I loved the harmony, rhythm and phrasing, but I wanted to apply them to my own concept and sound.
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.
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.
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound and important lesson. They had learned that hope, with its attendant blessings of peace and joy, does not depend upon circumstance. They had discovered that the true source of hope is faith—faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His infinite Atonement, the one sure foundation upon which to build our lives.
I hate to lose. And when I do lose, I don't lose the lesson, I don't miss the message.
. . . the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.
Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love.