Taught Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

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.