Taught Quotes

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

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

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

My mom taught me not to talk about money.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.

My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.