#lesson

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#because #drums #father #first #goal

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

Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders. ↗

— Steve Kendall

#life-lessons #maturity #reading #experience

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#among #anything #convince #country #devastated

The true experience of freedom is having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#experience

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

— Al Jourgensen

#everything #hard #lessons #off #pay

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#children #extra #fantastic #future #geography

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ↗

— Helen Keller

#lessons #life is a #lived #must #succession

I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can’t eat a baseball like an orange. Let that be a life lesson for you. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#baseball #food #life #life-lesson #orange