- Nov 07, 2020
Lesson Quotes
Hard-won lessons on craft, pain, and simply showing up.
These lines treat a lesson as something earned rather than handed over, whether through investing in employees during tough stretches or sitting through the discomfort that beauty and pain both carry. One writer boils an entire craft down to a single habit: just sitting down and doing the work. See Best for more on turning effort into results.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there is a lesson in everything that you do.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had an acting lesson.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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- Nov 07, 2020