Simple Lesson Quotes

#1. If I've learned anything at all from my years, it's the simple lesson that human beings are always more complicated, brave, long-suffering, and, ultimately, heroic than we ever guessed, and that none of us completely understands another, no matter how intimate we are with them.

James Lee Burke

#2. The rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical obligation to tell the truth when filling in forms.

Auberon Waugh

#3. A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.
Louis Auchincloss

Louis Auchincloss

#4. A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.

James Surowiecki

#5. It was a simple lesson, really. He could never, ever allow misplaced ideals to seduce him. He would not employ death as a tool.

Bonnie Dee

#6. But life should not be traded for gold - a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice.

Laila Lalami

#7. Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

Dan Wells

#8. The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving the room.

Tina Sloan

#9. No looking back. Life goes one way only. And whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson ...

Charles Frazier

#10. Sometimes not much is just enough.

John O'Callaghan

#11. I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

Criss Angel

#12. We never learn to value what is simple; what is difficult is worthy to us. But, the beauty of life is in the simplicity.

Debasish Mridha

#13. The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

Luigi Ghirri

#14. The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

Jack Dorsey

#15. There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

Gary Hamel

#16. Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.

Elmer Seward

#17. Never complain about what you allow.

John C. Maxwell

#18. I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

Christine Lavin

#19. Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure
put a period to
those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing ... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.

Iyanla Vanzant

#20. There's two wolves battling us all right now ... One's good, the other one is evil. If you're wondering which wolf inside will succeed, simple it's the one that you feed ...

Ronnie Radke

#21. I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore.

Elvis Presley

#22. I always wondered about growing up. I bet it's mostly lies.

Stephen King

#23. A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

Carl Sagan

#24. 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.

Fareed Zakaria

#25. Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

Charles R. Swindoll

#26. There is a l-life lesson here for all of us, is there, M-Mrs. Keeping?" he asked her. "We should all and always look upward, and all our t-troubles will be at an end?" She smiled. "If only life were that simple." "But for daffodils it is," he said. "We are not daffodils.

Mary Balogh

#27. For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning.

Philip Short

#28. The lesson is simple: it is absolutely crucial to give your staff the time and opportunity to keep their skills sharp. If you do not, then your organization will fall behind in the digital arena.

Anonymous

#29. Because if there is one simple, single lesson I can impart to you, it's this: Don't waste time, because you don't have any time to waste.

Roxanne St. Claire

#30. All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#31. The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

Eugene Jarecki

#32. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

William, Saroyan

#33. Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

Marshall Goldsmith

#34. I won't say if I'm single or dating or married or divorced. There's boundaries.

Tyra Banks

#35. The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk.

C.S. Lewis

#36. Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives to them.

Epictetus

#37. Chester had even told Zane to call him Grandpa.

Abigail Roux