Taught Quotes

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

I like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

He taught me how to fly on my own and learn the tricks.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

Programming is usually taught by examples.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.