#lesson

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life. ↗

— Marg Helgenberger

#could #fair #friends #him #his

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#because #bridge #cross #down #find

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#basic #causing #crises #damage #economy

Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive ↗

— Steve Aylett

#inspiration #lesson #life #love #experience

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#guidebok #life-lessons #manual #rule #tactics

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

#broadway #could #days #following #get

Life has thought me that I am always alone in war; I have to fight for myself; and it is the best cause. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#life

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons. ↗

— Zac Efron

#i #learned #lessons #life #life lessons

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. ↗

— Al Jourgensen

#everything #hard #lessons #off #pay

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia? ↗

— Tim Kaine

#economy #learn #lessons #nationally #should