lessons quotes

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.