| "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." »Thomas Huxley |
| "I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth." »Goldie Hawn |
| "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." »George Eliot |
| "Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling |
| "My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life." »Stan Getz |
| "Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
| "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." »Winston Churchill |
| "Life is a long lesson in humility." »James M. Barrie |
| "A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well." »Dan Rather |
| "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." »Vernon Sanders Law |
| "The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose." »John McEnroe |
| "He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear." »Gaius Julius Caesar |
| "Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson." »Vernon Law |
| "Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum." »Jeffrey Vlaming |
| "The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them." »William Fullbright |
| "The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world." »Frederick Chiluba |
| "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." »Henry Miller |
| "The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think." »John Burroughs |
| "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson |
| "When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." »Aldous Huxley |
| "If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to." »Unknown |
| "Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." »Clay P. Bedford |
| "If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." »Sir Walter Besant |
| "The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust." »Henry Stimson |
| "When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson." »Roger John |
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