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It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Sidney J. Harris

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

Peter McWilliams

We've learnt fascinating lessons.

Francis Collins

The lessons students need to learn are very similar to the issues faced by adults. The difference is college students are experiencing them for the first time.

Jacqueline King

Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age.

Thomas Perls

We learned a few lessons from last year, and everything is going smoothly this year.

Tom Page

There are definitely going to be lessons we'll be taking away from this.

Peter Judge

History teaches us lessons we should not forget.

Linda Wade

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

We hope that the lessons learned in the January election and the referendum will enable them to perform even better.

Ashraf Qazi

It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all.

Liam Fox

Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.

Neil Peart

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

Hun Sen

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

James Coburn

History teaches us lessons. How come there are no Chinese in the valley now? They were all chased off.

Jeresa Hren

It's quite an experience for the girls to be a part of something this big and the dancers will carry home some life lessons as well as an experience they will never forget.

Cindy Clough

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Martha Beck

The lessons that come from discovery of the Movement's story should point us forward.

Taylor Branch

We are employing lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and trying to take the steps now that will help us get back up and running depending on the impact.

Steve Baker

We have good kids who work hard. We'll be a better team because of the lessons we learned. We're not a bad football team, we're just not a good football team yet.

Rusty Zysett

I like learning to be as real and meaningful as possible. A lot of lessons come out of the habitat area.

Diane Elswick

Let's call it a black eye. Black eyes look ugly for a bit, but they go away. Hopefully, a few lessons will have been learned.

Victor Flores

The same lessons she teaches mainstream developers will apply to adult content developers, too. Who doesn't want a bigger audience?

Brenda Brathwaite

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

Richard L. Evans

It's huge, with the lessons you learn from playing those two games. We've been in the area championship and sub-state now. We know what it's all about.

Todd Taylor

If there's been wrongdoing, we'll hold people to account. If there's lessons to be learned we'll make sure they're learned.

Nick Hardwick

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

A lot of lessons learned. Me being young, I shouldn't be out that late to begin with. I'm just giving myself a curfew now.

Andray Blatche

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Malcolm Deans

I'm afraid we have not learned all the necessary lessons.

Uri Savir

It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

Pat Cash

Our kids are going to be acting out their multiplication tables and singing out their history lessons.

Jackie Collins

The Turkish national team should be more careful from now on. Everybody should learn lessons from this incident.

Senes Erzik

Having restored land to the people, ... We have learnt a host of lessons, all pointing to the challenge of ensuring food security for the people.

Robert Mugabe

The memorial took on a new meaning. It will have tremendous history lessons for generations to come.

Davis Newman

The lessons of people power are not lost to the anti-Arroyo movement.

Renato Reyes

I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.

Geri Halliwell

We are inspired by what is happening here. The revolution here is electoral. It has inspired us to take these lessons to our country and to inspire our people too.

Dolores Huerta

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art....

Michael Kimmelman

I was glad to hear the residents learned some lessons and are being encouraged to be better prepared in the future.

Sheila Varnado

You don't realize at the time the lessons you gain, but you see the bigger picture later on.

Randy Gipson

You're asking us to give you lessons learned when class is still in session.

Joe Farmer

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Marie Dressler

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

Larry Goldstein

I feel confident and hope for a brighter future of our country, Cambodia. We have learned the lessons from the past.

Prince Norodom Ranariddh

I've been playing baseball a lot. I also come because I do pitching lessons, too.

Cameron Mcintyre

We can all take lessons from our cats. ... They are very, very perceptual.

Chris Willingham

It is unlikely to be repeated. We have all learnt our lessons.

G.l. Peiris

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.

There is going to be a detailed review, an investigation, if you will, of the incident. We will look at how the plan was executed and lessons we've learned from that.

Paul Wattles

It boils down to a bunch of lessons I learned early on in my life from Frank Carney. Lessons about being different, about standing out from the competition. Lessons about not worrying what the competition is doing, just being the best you can. Everything else will take care of itself.

Bill Warren

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Denis Waitley

One of the lessons we learned four years ago was the need for a regional approach to addressing large-scale disasters.

Nicholas Scoppetta

I started teaching lessons again last year. I said I can teach if she can be in class.

Mary Pemberton

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Mary Catherine Bateson

There are two lessons to learn: Don't let your children play with guns. Always treat a gun as though it's loaded.

Pete Crum

They had a TV on in the lounge, so I ducked in to watch the action between lessons.

Brian Orser

I think we are really going to have to look very carefully at what lessons we didn't learn from Challenger and make sure we absolutely learn them this time.

Jonathan Clark

We let ourselves down against Martinsville. We came out not as focused as we had been, so we learned from our lessons. We had a fun job to do tonight, and that's all we focused on.

Tom Hering

At the moment this is a murder inquiry, but we will be looking into the lessons which can be learned from this.

Michael Todd

I've learned so much about baseball and life's lessons. Hawaii has been very good to me.

Robbie Wilder

The life lessons that these students will obtain from this experience will be incredible.

Jose Mercado

My dad noticed we could swim without lessons. It seemed to be something I had a talent for.

Carrie Chykaliuk

But we learned more from playing together than we ever did from lessons.

Leigh Bursey

When I called Kelly she opened her arms to us. They instruct some of the girls privately, so we coordinate our lessons so the girls are working on the same things.

Jack Dean

This grammar school boy is not going to take any lessons from a public school boy on children from less privileged backgrounds.

Michael Howard

It only takes a couple of lessons to cover the basic whatever.

Skip Brigham

We can all learn a lot of life lessons by watching this boy and his family.

Dr. Stewart Goldman

Everybody has learnt lessons from the July 7 attacks.

Rob Mcivor

HARD LESSONS. We wanted to bring groups together on common areas.

Larry Cohen

We'll learn from our lessons and we'll optimize. I am convinced this is one of the best ways to educate.

Philippe Willekens

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Patrick Buchanan

One or two plays can make or break you at that position. ... He's learned some hard lessons. (Wednesday's) lesson may be as difficult as anything we've learned yet. If he's learned from it, he will be much better down the road for it.

Chris Petersen

(Dole) was too heavy-handed in those days. Republicans learned their lessons, ... I don't think you're going to see any nastiness, at least not at this early stage.

Dan Cronin

People want to see what lessons the government learned and the response that is going to be made.

Jack Womack

Venus has a lot of lessons to teach the Earth about how things could go awry.

Kevin Baines

My headmistress was very good about it. She used to say that I could do my homework in the PE lessons because I was already getting enough exercise.

Cathy Peters

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

Jennifer Aniston

We have drawn lessons from the previous elections and we are cautiously optimistic that glitches will be reduced to a minimum.

Bongani Finca

I support the coaches 110 percent. They're Christian men. Whatever they say, I'll do. It's a lesson that everybody may learn. Everybody has their different lessons. Mine was that one.

A.j. Nicholson

The lessons learned from the Trilogy program are guiding us, and the FBI continues to strengthen our internal controls.

Cathy Milhoan

I never really got more than a few feet off the water. This was the first time that I tried to fly it by myself. I took a few lessons in Canada when I bought it.

Matt Evans

The Holocaust bears lessons for us all, and we should all express concern when similar events occur.

Dawud Walid

Tough lessons are the only way to learn this game.

Peter Elander

We have been lucky because we have been able to learn from some of the lessons of the existing academies.

Phil Hearne

It shows that government is not doing its job to incorporate some of the lessons they learned into their actual planning.

Wilmer Alvarez

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Boris Yeltsin

When you're first starting, we call them lessons, not losses.

Carlos Duncan

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Dale E. Turner

I think the club have learned one or two wee lessons from this.

Martin O'neill

I keep talking about the lessons that we're learning. And here's another one. You just don't give up on anybody. ... Maybe we're not quite as good as we think we are sometimes.

Paul Sather

It's a lesson learned. You want to learn lessons while your winning ... but we've got to bounce back. We've got Elon next. We expect to win.

Shawan Robinson

Clearly, the lessons learned from this mission will fundamentally influence all future asteroid rendezvous missions.

Daniel Scheeres

Year after year we've learnt lessons and have been able to improve in a serene atmosphere.

Sidney Govou

We at Mars Express will forge ahead, taking on board all the lessons that we can from the polar lander failure.

Rudi Schmidt

It was a dream vacation for us and it was the first time that we had been there. The men had golf lessons, we had a spa and a private dinner was set aside for Paul and I.

Cyndy Teas

She has really improved. Over the summer she took lessons.

Tom Waterson

He put me up in a hotel for 10 days and gave me batting lessons.

Owais Shah

The lessons of prudence have charms, And slighted, may lead to distress; But the man whom benevolence warms Is an angel who lives but to bless.

Robert Bloomfield

What we're going to take away is a lot of lessons learned. The more we can exercise, the more we can test things, the better we're all going to get.

Jerry Cochran

Don came up from the bottom and did not forget the lessons he learned from the street. Now he's a street fighter in the boardroom.

John Vaccaro

We have a great opportunity to move beyond the past and learn the lessons of that painful history.

Vaira Vike Freiberga

We thought it would be a great way for the kids to get involved. There are very valuable lessons to be learned.

Karen Murphy

I started teaching lessons on the side because there were a lot of people asking me if I gave lessons.

Jim Stephens

And I've actually taken a few golf lessons from Russ.

Brian Orser

They certainly are a way to effectively present online lessons to the same class at the same time.

Ann Tornberg

There are two big lessons if we fight Saddam. One is that there has to be unconditional surrender. And also, if the Bush administration is [going to] make Iraq into a democracy, [there will] have to be the will to stay there.

Michael Beschloss

The level down here is unbelievable. They take some great lessons from what they experienced.

Kathy Wilburn

Men are reticent to take dance lessons because that's not where their heads are at. They come to it after they turn 40.

Richard Kane

So in addition to music, the students will get important lessons in history and social studies.

Russell Schmidt

With advanced lessons, it really depends on what the clients want to learn. It's very individualized.

Darrell Romero

Before I took lessons, I wouldn't be the first one out on a dance floor. And I certainly would shy away when someone asked me to dance.

Emily Zywicke

Lessons for Tomorrow: Bringing America's Schools Back from the Brink.

Edward Davis

It is extremely disappointing that BP Products failed to learn from the lessons of Texas City to assure their workers' safety and health.

Edwin Foulke

We've already remade 15 of our 40 original TREAD-1 lessons for the Internet version.

E. Bruce Weiss

The Jewish Agency for Israel has learned important lessons from its previous experience in the initial absorption of immigrants from Ethiopia and is confident that the immigration and absorption of the current wave of immigration from Ethiopia will be successful.

Zeev Bielski

We could learn more lessons from the losses than from the victory. We had enough failures in the past.

Zhang Yadong