Taught Quotes

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

I remember being taught my place.

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.