Lessons Quotes

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

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.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

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.

I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.