For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Joseph Brodsky

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
George H. W. Bush

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
James Russell Lowell

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
Christopher Bond

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.
Lawrence Taylor

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Lewis Mumford

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
Mandy Moore

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
Shirin Ebadi

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
Billie Jean King

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.
Jim Evans

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.
Mariel Hemingway

I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.
Wynonna Judd

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
Anna Quindlen

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
Chad Smith

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
Nancy Kerrigan