Taught Quotes

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.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

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.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.