Taught Quotes

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.

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, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

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.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.