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1 " One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return. "
― Marcella Purnama , What I Wish I Had Known (And Other Lessons You Learned in Your 20s)
2 " One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one." " Always?" I ask." Always!" she confirms. " Good stories teach! "
3 " Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some effort, be said shorter and better with a little careful editing? Or that, in writing, there's nothing you can describe in any page-filling paragraph that can't be captured better in just a sentence or two? Perhaps even nothing in any sentence which cannot better be refined in a single, spot-on word? Does it not follow, then, that there's likely nothing one can say in any word - in saying anything at all - that, ultimately, isn't better left unsaid? (attrib: F.L. Vanderson) "
― , Citations: A Brief Anthology
4 " One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger. "
― Karen Marie Moning , The Highlander's Touch (Highlander, #3)
5 " It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism. "
