Sentence examples for firsthand lessons from inspiring English sources

Throughout his cycling career, he has had several firsthand lessons in crisis management.

It's a lot for players to learn – especially when the only firsthand lessons they've had before training camp are a week's worth of illegal pre-lockout cram sessions.

(And a lot of these firsthand lessons can also be applied to other major surgery. Believe me, I know. I've also had operations to remove my entire colon, my rectum and a foot-long tumor from my right knee).

Burger King has gotten a firsthand lesson in how difficult selling alcohol can be.

Twenty-six journalists received a firsthand lesson in the Qaddafi government's decision-making style late on Wednesday afternoon.

It was then that Brett received a firsthand lesson about baseball's pine tar rule, which states that pine tar cannot extend more than 18 inches up from the handle of the bat.

Some artists, like the young John Singer Sargent, learned its lessons firsthand in France; one of his early experiments, "Oyster Gatherers of the Cancale," was painted in 1878, four years after the first Impressionist exhibition.

Helleday's early willingness to learn lessons firsthand has contributed to his scientific success.

The Asia crisis, which we saw firsthand, has several lessons for us.

And in learning these spiritual lessons firsthand I can no longer cower.

This is the kind of friendship that proves that you don't have to experience everything in life firsthand to learn lessons.