Source: Diane Sawyer interview (ABC, 1993)
Robert Rosen (2013), Essays on Life Itself Chapter 18
“You Been Burned baby lessons learned.”
In And Out Of Love
Music, 7800° Fahrenheit (1985)
“The hardest lesson that I learned is that “rejection is protection.””
Rejection never feels good, but as artists I think we tend to take rejection so personally. It can cause us to doubt our work or talent. However, rejection isn’t always someone saying we don’t like your work or you’re not talented. Sometimes it’s someone else recognizing that they can’t give you what you need to fly. It’s a venue saying this is not quite the right fit for you right now. That doesn’t mean that you won’t find home for your work. That doesn’t mean that venue won’t come looking for you one day. It means you have to keep working hard until you find the perfect fit and when the time is right it will work itself out.
On learning to take rejection in “Q&A Session with Award-Winning Author, Sheri Booker” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interview-with-award-winning-author-sheri-booker_b_5684760 in HuffPost (2014 Aug 19)
“That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.”
“I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.”
“I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.”
Attributed to Diane Sawyer in: Ellen Sue Stern (1993) I Do: Meditations for Brides. p. 9
“Crossing that bridge,
With lessons I've learned.
Playing with fire,
And not getting burned.”
"Prayer For The Dying"
Seal (1994)
Context: Crossing that bridge,
With lessons I've learned.
Playing with fire,
And not getting burned.
I may not know what you're going through.
But time is the space,
Between me and you.
Life carries on... it goes on.
