Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.
After the '30s, we said, "no more Munichs." And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, "No more Vietnams." Now if we say, "No more Iraqs," the next one won't be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can't learn lessons.
Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.
Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.
Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.
Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
In every job and position, there are valuable lessons to be learned. Even in a nasty, abusive, toxic workplace, you're being taught precisely how not to run an organization.
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.
Everything in life is like a class if you can operate in a capacity to be open for the lesson.
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.
