#lesson

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long. ↗

— Christopher Bond

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Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't. ↗

— Brett Favre

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When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture. ↗

— Sophia Bush

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By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. ↗

— Gerard Butler

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Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff. ↗

— Rose Byrne

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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility. ↗

— Oded Fehr

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I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again. ↗

— Jane Campion

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'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative. ↗

— Jane Campion

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The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. ↗

— Allyson Felix

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