Lesson Quotations | Page 5

It was just a bad game. We just have to learn. Put this one behind us and just keep going. It's not the end of the world, but it's definitely something we've gotta take a lesson from.

These two companies give a must-have lesson for all retailers. Shaper Image has seen sales jump in the double-digits because they keep innovating and offering new, fun and useful products.

These two companies gave a must-have lesson for all retailers, Sharper Image combed the globe for unusual and exciting products that weren't run-off-the-mill ... Retailers made the mistake of taking customers for granted and the payoff came two weeks ago in much weaker Christmas sales because of ho-hum kind of merchandise.

These two companies gave a must-have lesson for all retailers, ... Sharper Image combed the globe for unusual and exciting products that weren't run-off-the-mill ... Retailers made the mistake of taking customers for granted and the payoff came two weeks ago in much weaker Christmas sales because of ho-hum kind of merchandise.

That's a hard lesson for those whose false pride and erroneous concepts have driven them not to respond, even late, to our offer,

The key to success in tech is taking some money off the table. The lesson for investors is not to own things in black and white. There's a happy medium. You can sell some but you don't have to sell all of it.

I'm going to stand up among a bunch of elected governors and say, 'Are we going to allow the military without a shot being fired to effectively do an end-run coup on civilian government? Are we going to allow that?' ... We're going to have a little civics lesson for some leaders who are apparently out of touch in the military.

I'm going to be prepared every day. St. Louis was my big lesson as far as experiencing splitting time with Ozzie. I found out that I couldn't go home and relax and say, 'I'm not playing tomorrow.' I had to eventually prepare myself to be ready to play. And this year is no different. I'm prepared to play every day.

I'm not going to say it was a fluke, but they had a lot to play for, and we came out flat. We learned our lesson from that.

I kind of went out there and I shagged balls after he gave a lesson, then I'd go to him and he'd give me a lesson and then I got to shag them again, ... That was a lot of work.

I keep stressing that last year put everything in perspective. I felt like football was my whole life. When it was taken away from me, I felt the Lord was teaching me a lesson to not put all my eggs in one basket. ... That's why I am enjoying playing.

I learned a lesson tonight. The kids learned a lesson. Defeat is not an elective. It's a required course.

I learned a lesson the South Florida game when that happened. I didn't call a timeout, and I should have.

I learned a highly valuable lesson in Vancouver about European players. You have to give your stars . . . the latitude to do extraordinary things.

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

I learned a big lesson that night. I?m really quick to call timeouts when teams go on runs now.

I learned my lesson there. I was playing with Thompson and made the mistake of not respecting his determination. I left the gap and he took it. It was a hard lesson. It cost me a world title. But I promise you one thing. You won't ever see me clowning around again.

I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.

I learned my lesson on several 'swing for the fences' deals, ... I'm not afraid to step up to the plate and take a big risk, but I don't want the whole thing to be driven by hype. People who hit a lot of home runs also strike out a lot.

I learned my lesson from last year, ... (Denver's record is now) zero and zero.

I learned that we are capable of winning, but I also learned we are awful. There's a lesson in everything we do, but the bottom line is that right now, we don't have the proper tools to compete.

I hope we learned a lesson after we got slapped across the face. When you let momentum get away from you, it's hard to get it back and you can't rest until you get back on the bus.

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

I know Randy has learned a lesson from this. It's important for all our players to understand that they represent this team and this community, and conduct themselves accordingly. Regarding anything we will do in this specific instance, it's a team matter and as such will be handled privately.

I'm getting a lesson in post-Charley getting construction done.

I'm so proud of the guys because we learned a lesson today. We didn't turn the ball over and we got a win. That's a start. That's heading down the path that we were talking about.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

If you can sit through The Aristocrats and laugh at it, you come out the other end realizing that to be made to laugh at it robs the telling of it of the power to shock and sting. It's why (word-abusing comic George) Carlin is in the movie. It's basically a lesson about words, how we can give power to words and take it back. Comedy lubricates that transaction sometimes.

If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all...

In other words, exactly what the commission predicted would occur as a result of Microsoft's illegal bundling behavior has occurred: Real has been marginalized, ... The lesson is that the commission is right to have found Microsoft to have engaged in illegal conduct, but that it erred in taking so long to decide the case and in imposing an ineffective remedy.

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

I know I've taken a lot from it as captain, ... Even when you're losing, it still toughens you up. You learn how to cope with different and difficult situations and we've done well to keep our spirits high. These guys have worked hard. They've had a chance to watch good players every week and learn from them. Take our game against Warwickshire last week. It wasn't enjoyable to watch Nick Knight build up an innings against us but the likes of Omer Hussain and Qasim Sheikh got a lesson in how to go about that. We've a lot of good young players coming through. We've taken this experience and learned from it and now we have to put it into practice in the future.

Inventory has become a life and death issue for our industry. The lesson of the last two quarters is that inventory has moved from being a concern of the purchasing segment to a concern of the industry itself.

In the beginning, we had tremendous successes in all types of things. Rushing averages, how many rushing yards given up, how many touchdowns given up. And then we kind of fell. I think we learned that lesson about getting our heads too big.

In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.

If you make a lot of yards and you turn the ball over, then you don't score points, ... So that's a tough lesson to learn. Maybe I'm looking at the good side of it Maybe it's good we get the lesson now. Last year, we started out the season and that's exactly what haunted us -- we turned the ball over and right now we're next to last in the league in terms of giveaways and takeaways.

In 365 days he went from agony to the thrill of victory. He learned to handle the pressure, which is something he didn't do last year. That's a very hard thing for a kid to do. It was a lesson well-learned.

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.

I think all of us are concerned about security, but I think the lesson -- and I think it's a national lesson -- is you can't have uncontrolled power that affects individual rights. ... they (jurors) were not going to let a company simply under the guise of security fly and trample on a person's rights.

I just learned a valuable lesson in coaching from the teacher. What you learn is you have to get in a great shape so that your best players can stay on the football field the whole game. We'll be a better football after having played them.

By the time we realized, 'Hey, we can still play,' we lost a few games. At the end of the year, if we win one more game, we're in the playoffs. Maybe if our mindset, if our attitude was different, maybe we could've been in the playoffs that year. Let's hope we learned a lesson from that.

He's the absolutely best friend to everybody, ... It's a beautiful story, and each episode is a great lesson in itself.

Houston and Dallas are going to make mistakes because they're young quarterbacks. Houston came back and threw some great passes in the third quarter. Dallas didn't tuck the ball away and I know he's learned a lesson there and I think he will be better because of it.

Certainly the lesson from the Genesis crash, which was apparently caused by parts incorrectly installed, is that you've got to be meticulous in your engineering. And that's certainly going to be the case for Mars. We are going to have to design any return spacecraft from Mars so that it can handle a hard landing, such as we saw for Genesis.

Certainly, we will have to learn the lesson of what has happened in the last few days.

Hopefully, it will be a lesson and make us come out harder. We'll try to come out of the gate and jump on teams and steal some wins and position ourselves as high as possible.

Generally speaking, we came through fairly well. There's a lesson here: to acknowledge the power of a tropical cyclone.

If I get that out, I think it's a totally different inning. My best pitch is my fastball. I don't need to fool guys with off-speed pitches ---- just go after them. It's a good lesson learned early in the season.

If he had been a nicer guy, there might be more people here. Surely, he must have given a bad lesson to somebody.

I do tend to gravitate toward what guiding light we have. . . . If I read something that's got those ethics in it, then I go towards it. We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over.

I am not going to comment on that. What I will say is if you mess up it is a lesson if you learn from it. I am hoping everybody learns from this. What I told P-man was, 'You are in the spotlight, learn from it.' But I have to learn from it, too, I had two penalties.

I chose the middle name Faith for her because this whole experience has been a lesson in faith for me,

He basically was curious and wanted to see where and what the storm drain systems were all about. So he decided to take a little expedition in the storm drain systems of Pima County and learn a lesson the hard way.

Health reform has been like a car with a dead battery. I think this will provide the jumper cables. I think we could do it with a five-year plan. I think we have a situation where health insurance premiums are going up at four times the rate of wages. So the American worker is caught in a squeeze I think the lesson from Massachusetts is that if we get together and split the differences, and come up with compromise approaches, we don't have to turn the health care system upside down. We don't have to go to a socialized approach. We can do this within the context of our system.

The major lesson to be learned from Enron is that every major bank still gets greedy,

The judges learned the lesson about self-representation too late. They bent over backwards for him.

The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.

This is a good lesson for the kids at the school. They have had them out sorting out donated items - putting sheets with sheets, pillows with pillows, piling them up for distribution.

This is a great lesson for all these guys. They can win without Gerry. It will help make them stronger. It gives us a chance to rest Gerry.

This is a great lesson for all the guys. They can win without Gerry.

A lesson that finance professionals had to relearn after Enron is making sure you understand how the company makes money and making sure you understand why you own stock or bond of a particular company.

A judge finally agreed that it wasn't right I was still paying for something I did 13 years ago, ... I'm not bitter. It was a lesson in disguise.

The Holy Father, with his words and his works, has given us great things; but no less important is the lesson he gave us from the chair of suffering and silence.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

The essence of teaching, the soul of the art, is being brave enough, psychologically unencumbered enough, to see exactly what is taking place in the minds of your students at any given moment and then--like a good psychotherapist--speak to and through their defenses to uncover the true promise of the lesson, its hidden meaning. This significance will almost always be different from what you originally took it to be and at odds with the lesson plan. But that is what makes teaching a creative act. One doesn't just dispense information--one brings insight into being. I am surprised by what I ""teach"" all the time.

The historically important opportunity presented by the IRA cessation of almost two years ago has been frittered away on the back of British policy, ... All of that could have been avoided, and that is a lesson that has to be learned if we're to put this together again.

The greatest lesson those kids learned today was the importance of free speech.

The greatest lesson I learned was to love thy neighbor, ... Too often we're fine loving our neighbor, but just not in my neighborhood.

The great lesson from the true mystics is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, and in one's backyard.

The important lesson is that this is a homegrown company. If we get them growing here, the roots grow deep, and it becomes difficult for that kind of business to be successfully recruited to another area.

The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.

You work so hard to get to this point and then shoot yourself in the foot like that, it's inexcusable. It really is. Guys were losing their composure out there and that obviously can't happen. I guess if there's any light on it, it happened in Game 1. That's going to be a quick lesson for us.

The climb represents a mission of hope and a true lesson in overcoming adversity.

The first time you take the Clocker, you learn about the private car, because there were always seats on that train and people gravitate back there. You learn the lesson pretty quick because you get thrown out of the car.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Am I happy we got the two points? You bet. Am I happy with how we got them? Not really, but it's a lesson learned.

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.

The market will closely monitor planting progress, weather and weather forecasts, and weekly crop condition reports as they become available in order to judge 2006 production prospects. These factors will also provide producers with valuable information for gauging new crop pricing opportunities. The lesson of a year ago is that the weekly crop condition ratings are very valuable in judging U.S. average yield prospects.

The lesson we learned was never to get into the hardware business again, ... Sega had incurred an incredible amount of losses over the last few years trying to develop a next generation console. The unfortunate part of getting into the hardware market is that it's a very expensive undertaking. All the hardware manufacturers are incurring losses.

The lesson we are teaching citizens is somehow we don't have to listen to the courts. This is disrespectful to Judge Hamilton, the judicial system and the Bill of Rights.

The lesson to be learned here is people shouldn't take a Category 1 or 2 hurricane lightly. A Category 1 or 2 has the same winds as a low-end tornado.

The lesson they're getting from the community is that it's OK to steal something. It's so contradictory to what we're trying to teach.

The last tournament, we got off to a slow start, and we got ourselves in a big hole. That was a lesson to us, and tonight when they made runs, we countered.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

The lesson of Tiananmen is you can to do things to keep order in your own country and the Americans will punish you for it.

The lesson of The Odd Couple is that there are still genuine Broadway stars. And it was an opportunity for those who might have missed (Lane and Broderick) in The Producers , which has also been great for Broadway.

The lesson of the last half decade is the need to manage risk. In my judgment, the investing public is a lot more amenable to owning fixed-income securities now than at any time in the last 15 or 20 years.

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

The lesson learned is you're not going to survive a 2-15 stretch. When that happens early, you've really dug yourself a hole. I can't say I saw it coming, and it buried us. And what we did out of the division really hurt us.

The lesson learned here is that passengers need to pay close attention during the screening process.

The lesson I take away from that is you can reduce congestion over some period of time, but it's very difficult to sustain that.

The lesson is we need stable funding, so we won't have a crisis every five years.

The lesson is those things have to be negotiated in private, but once you finish those negotiations, all those things have to be public, and that wasn't done in Toronto.

The lesson is the same as it always has been to the HIV/AIDS community: embrace and celebrate the progress while not letting up the pressure until there is a cure.

The lesson is that you have to pay the price in order to restore the fish stock.

The lesson is that when the storm hits, the best place to be is to be out of the path of the storm, ... There's plenty of notice about Rita.

The lesson I learned from this one is not so much in the details of the network design or preparedness, but the issues we dealt with in facing a situation with civil unrest and security issues for our employees.

The lesson here is you can't expect users to learn. There's too much fun going on out there on the Internet.

The lesson here is that flu constantly evolves, and we are always just one mutation away from a resistant virus.