Taught Quotes

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.

Even going to [ Kanye West] warehouse and modeling for a lot of his new season stuff taught me about my silhouette, how the clothes fit - I've definitely learned a lot being around him.

I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.

You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.

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

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.

I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

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.

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

I have to say, opening up in New York taught me a lot about that level of attention to detail. London's a tough market, Paris is a tough market, but New York, well, that's extraordinary.

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.