#lessons

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

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I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

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I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them. ↗

— Charlie Watts

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There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

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Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. ↗

— Puff Daddy

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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

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I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

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Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

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I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

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I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.' ↗

— Rita Rudner

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