Taught Quotes

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

If you’re taught you can't do anything you won't do anything, I was taught I could do everything.

Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.

Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

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

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle; the Teacher is Jesus; the matter taught is His Flesh and His Blood

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.

It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.