Sentences with phrase «was a painful lesson»

«It was a painful lesson, but it's how we were able to pay to attention to new customers and new revenue stream, and not just stay focused on the old business.»

And that's a painful lesson the mainstream media are going to have to swallow sooner or later.

Both need seniority around them to reach their clear potential, but days like this are painful lessons that can seriously damage their progress.

It was a painful lesson, and I never spoke about it to anyone.

It's a painful lesson for Mini, but one that we believe the company can overcome.

It was a painful lesson as she had changed law firms to gain an increase in compensation that turned out to be less than her replacement negotiated for her old position.

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Admitting that was painful, but only after taking responsibility did I learn the vital lessons.

It was a painful realization for him, but a crucial lesson.

«I learned that as a former Google executive I was grossly misinformed about how medicine works and had to learn some painful lessons by making some mistakes that probably doubled the process,» Gundotra told Business Insider in an interview.

«As a former Google executive I was grossly misinformed about how medicine works and had to learn some painful lessons by making some mistakes that probably doubled the process,» Vic Gundotra told Business Insider in a candid interview.

Your mistakes are directly painful, and you never forget the lessons you learn.

«It was an extraordinarily gratifying thing to learn, but it was an ungodly painful lesson.»

I suspect that over the coming years we will see the market inflict a series of painful lessons on those who continue to maintain that liquidity triumphs over all, and that risk of a negative credit event can be hedged via a party with direct exposure to that event.

If you thought you were going to make $ 100,000 and drive a Porsche immediately out of college, then your standards of success were skewed and superficial, you confused your pleasure for happiness, and the painful smack of reality hitting you in the face will be one of the best lessons life ever gives you.

Keeping the end game in mind, despite the sometimes painful process, is a lesson in commitment for the rest of us.

«Some of those lessons were expensive and painful.»

It was an extremely painful lesson to learn — but learning from mistakes (and a combination of good fortune and adrenalin) is what has gotten me through!

«In the beginning, you're almost certainly wrong,» says Cubbon, adding that discovering these truths in a course is much less painful lesson then in the business world.

It would be unfortunate for an investor to relearn a painful lesson of another crash.

Ten years after the official start of the downturn, some entrepreneurs profiled by The Associated Press as the recession began say now that they are grateful but not gleeful; they have many painful memories and lessons learned.

After the losses of 2008 — a painful lesson, your blog made me put things into perspective, I am glad I landed at the right place.

But today's JVs are different — they've been shaped by painful lessons learned during the financial crisis, when many projects were either put on hold or abandoned.

Sadly, no, and so hard, sometimes painful lessons are learned.

For the time being, the painful lessons of the father's and the founder's justice must be allowed to sink in without a word of consolation.

The lesson is a clear one, even if painful to learn: Bambi is most vulnerable when he does not live within himself.

It's a lesson that has been extremely painful for me to learn but at this point I am saying no.

It was clear from the way Arsenal started this away game against the current Premier League champions, as well as the starting line - up selected by Arsene Wenger, that the Gunners had learned some painful lessons in recent years and were determined not to be too open.

The manager seems to have learned from that painful lesson and is identifying and completing his transfer business in good time.

After all, it was a painful but valuable lesson for the Gunners to learn.

It does seem as though Arsenal have finally found the right balance and have learned some painful lessons about starting games slowly (a la Stoke) us focusing too much on the attacking side of the game when we should be solid and compact (a la Anderlecht).

What I learned that weekend was a very painful lesson - weaning hurts.

Many child behavior psychologists believe that needed life lessons are not being taught when discipline is angry and painful, and corporal punishment will often leave a child with increased anxiety and the inability to trust parental figures.

I haven't been a Tiger Mom by any stretch, but there have definitely been instances where I have pushed Laurel's pace (e.g., catastrophic swim lessons at age 4), and the results were disastrous — painful and ineffective for all parties involved.

Breast may be best but isn't always possible or enough... i hope lessons were learned from your experience and will continue to be learned by you sharing your painful journey xx

My only real choice was to catch her, to hold her and to love her while she learned this painful lesson of life.

«I think in terms of this job, there's tons of very, very painful life lessons that come at you really quickly, but what I think it has shown me... [is that] cancer cuts across all sorts of demographics and socioeconomic groups and is relentless, and so I think that was life lesson number one.»

The painful lessons from the Yugoslav conflict should not be forgotten.

For sure, though, this is a painful, shameful lesson we must never forget.

He is learning a painful lesson to the contrary at the hands of the U.S. Attorney.

My adjustments in graduate school were easier because of the painful lessons I'd learned as an undergrad.

«The lessons learned in the first two decades of the new century have been hard learned and painful,» they wrote.

When I started to recognize unpleasant feelings as teachers, the realization naturally followed that painful moments, difficult experiences, are lessons.

It can be exceptionally painful, but in my experience, such times allow you to learn valuable lessons about boundaries.

But people are going to make mistakes, and experiences in love often teach us the most useful (if painful) lessons.

The thing about dating is that sometimes the lessons we learn are rather painful.

The comedy pivots on Hank's painful adjustment to middle - class living, but that joke is undercut with syrupy life lessons about parental responsibility and quality time.

The Lesson The Lesson is a dark, painful and savagely funny psychological thriller unlike any you've -LSB-...]

Understanding A-Level Photography / Fine Art Marking and Assessment for AFL: This presentation (and accompanying jpegs) contain resources for helping A-Level students understand Marking and Assessment at A-Level (AFL)- I use these resources in my teaching of AS and A-Level students and help students: - Learn about marking - Mark / Peer Assess their work - Try to understand how the numbers correspond to their grade / mark It has been really useful in my lessons for ensuring understanding of marking and AFL - and has made what can be a painful part of the lesson - really worthwhile and useful.

I was treated to a painful refresher lesson about the strength of modeling.

But it needn't be a painful experience with these five lessons that teach grammar — without the hammer!