A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.
Thomas P. O'Neill

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
John Henrik Clarke

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
Johann Georg Zimmermann

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rather

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Bainbridge Colby

And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career.
Shemar Moore

And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.
Steve Case

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
John Spratt

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
Clayton Christensen

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
Dougray Scott

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
Gunther Grass

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
Charles James

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Louis Nizer

But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
Sam Donaldson

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
Wole Soyinka

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
Lawrence Welk

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
Henry Timrod

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
Roger Craig