An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
One of the lessons of 911 and (Hurricane) Katrina was 'communication, communication, communication,. . We don't want to have to say 'should have, could have, would have. '.
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.
I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We're impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors.
This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!
Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.
The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?
The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.
Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson.
We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one change and you're cooked. So we should be diversifying, wouldn't you say?
What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical lesson, to renew the heart, and to bring us back to the state from whence we are fallen.
Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.
