Taught Quotes - Page 24

• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Intuition, Criticism

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• We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.

  Gwen Bristow

  Education, Hate, Learning

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• I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

  Mark Takano

  Writing, School, Years

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• In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

  Mary Cunningham Agee

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

  Mary Cunningham, Mary Cunningham Agee, Fran Schumer (1984). “Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix”, Simon & Schuster

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• Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.

  Caroline Paul

  Lying, Cat, Animal

  Caroline Paul (2013). “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology”, p.31, A&C Black

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• If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.

  Michelle Singletary

  Money, Children, Grandmother

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• 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.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Generations, Subordination, More Time

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• Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Brother, Believe, Hands

  Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• ... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver

  Mother, Father, Nine

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• Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

  Niger Innis

  Rights, America, Understanding

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• My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mother, Mental Power

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• Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.

  John Grisham

  Home, Order, Mississippi Delta

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• My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.

  Otto Skorzeny

  Pain, War, Enemy

  "Skorzeny" by Charles Whiting, (p. 17), 1972.

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• The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

  Jorge Paulo Lemann

  Years, Skills, People

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• I had this whole hippie idea of how easy raising a baby would be. How he would just eat and sleep and listen to Mozart, and I could just go on with my life the way it was. I was very wrong. It [being a mother] has taught me to be present and to live inside my body rather than in some out-there fantasy world.

  Chiara Barzini

  Mother, Baby, Hippie

  "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.

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• The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.

  Patti Smith

  Betrayal, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Father, Two

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

  Michael Pollan

  Self, Understanding, Plant

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. August 7, 2017.

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• My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.

  Pete Seeger

  Mother, Song, Brother

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, Fake, Comedy

  Interview with Nora Ephron, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 2000.

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• The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

  Byron Katie

  Mother, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Simple, Meditation

  "Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.

  Catherine Ponder

  Expectations, Mind, Produce

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.46, Lulu.com

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

  Leontyne Price

  Singing, Given, Interest

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• If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Mean

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