#lesson

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.' ↗

— Jason Dohring

#because #been #better #career #close

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. ↗

— Marie Dressler

#few #few things #fifty #found #hardest

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. ↗

— Tom Bodett

#lesson #life #school #taught #teaches

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

#arriving #been #first #knowledge #lessons

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

#because #history #last #lesson #long

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico. ↗

— Jennifer Esposito

#el salvador #father #geography #give #how

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#clearer #contribute #day #everest #happened

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work. ↗

— Jim Evans

#enjoy #find #i #learned #lesson

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#artisan #draw #europe #experience #government

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#decide #enough #haven #learned #lessons