Taught Quotes

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.

Now, as an adult, I appreciate those memories. Mom taught me the importance of compassion for your waitress, your crossing guard, your mailman.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and burn eternally in fire and brimstone.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research.

You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...

Today, most models don't know the first thing about makeup. My mom taught me that makeup is supposed to enhance my natural beauty, not create a mask.

I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

Denial is a powerful weapon. My dad taught me mind over matter. No matter how hurt I got, he didn't mind.

Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything.

Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for me, were a beacon, a guiding force.

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

There's been a lot of focus on my body, but it's taught me to appreciate myself no matter where I am.

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear

Kids have to be taught to hate.

My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.

Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.

[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.

The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?

Let our children be taught love love love.

If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

I taught high school students Spanish.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

You have to be taught to hate.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

The real lesson Orville (Redenbacher) taught me was the power of a good brand to trump all rhyme or reason in the marketplace.

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.

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.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

My parents always told me to stay away from trouble. When I moved away from them at a young age, I was fine because they taught me how to do everything right.

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

Try not to worry what your parents think - try to help them see that you do live by the values that they taught you.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.