#lesson

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

#among #been #before #books #care

When the student is ready... the lesson appears. ↗

— Gene Oliver

#lesson #ready #student

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. ↗

— Rand Paul

#american history #any #capitalism #cold #cold war

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. ↗

— Emo Philips

#dollars #down #feel #fifth #fifty

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#kids #learn #lessons #many #need

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#core #display #even #great #had

Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake but drifting. Most were terrifying, the nightmares of the shadows growing bolder and larger. Others were pleasant wishes of a rosy future, free of the past. These were rare, Patrick had learned. Life on the run was life in the past. There was no closure ↗

— John Grisham

#past #dreams

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#grew #i #lessons #liking #piano

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness. ↗

— William Brewster

#discipline #forgiveness #goal #godly #hearts

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons. ↗

— Bobby Brown

#children #family #grown #grown man #had