#lesson

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#africa #after #among #breaking #every

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#hated #i #kid #lessons #like

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group. ↗

— James Cameron

#efforts #enterprise #ever #exactly #going

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around..:) ↗

— opera winfrey

#life

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#also #because #bring #giving #holy

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#first #friend #i #internal #learned

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? ↗

— Winston Churchill

#been #cease #forget #kind #lesson

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know. ↗

— Joanna Field

#inspirational #life-lessons #inspirational

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. ↗

— Mark Twain

#life

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life-lessons #personality #society #life