#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

Every fiction has its base in fact. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#inspirational #life-lesson #inspirational

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#driving #had #i #lessons #new

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#discourse #expressed #lesson #long #moral

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

I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.' ↗

— Steve Burns

#clues #day #every #every day #i

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

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

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#enjoyed #good #guess #i #lessons

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