Taught Quotes

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.

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

My father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Religion is caught, not taught.

And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taght not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

When I taught, all my best students were women.

Good values are easier caught than taught.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.

As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it’s a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

I don't care what studio I'm in, I don't care what producers is producing it and I don't care what song it is because they taught me those things I feel so protected wherever I go as far as music.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth