Taught Quotes

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.

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.

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.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

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 get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.