Taught Quotes

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

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.

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

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.

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.

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 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.