Self Taught Quotes

Self Taught Quote of the day

Many people who excel are self-taught.

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

Being celibate was so wonderful. It taught me a lot about love, but even more about my own self outside of love. I'd never met myself out of love before, really.

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.