I think it is important for young people to see other young people on television doing something positive with their life, making positive changes and growing. I don't think there is enough of that on TV. I mean, we've got 'Jersey Shore,' and I don't know what that teaches young kids.
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But mostly research teaches me about the world. Which often shows me the way, in terms of the story.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
The burned hand teaches best.
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.
Sport. . . teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.
Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
Travel teaches toleration.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches
For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.
The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.
What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.