Taught Quotes

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

There's more learning than is taught in books.

There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

We're taught to value ourselves not by the good we do but by the shoes we wear.

So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!

I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.

It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.

One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.

Growing up, I was taught a mans word is his bond.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

I love myself for all my mistakes and missteps. They have been very valuable to me. They have taught me many things. It is the way I learn. I am willing to stop punishing myself for my mistakes.

I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed.

We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

Strange what love taught you about your faults.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.