Taught Quotes - Page 40

• I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dad, Writing, Stories

  "The Best Jokes Are Dangerous, An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Part Three". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.mcsweeneys.net. September 18, 2002.

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• I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, “If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, “Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously.” All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Running, Teacher, Thinking

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2006.

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• I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

  Steve Martin

  Kids, Comedy, Used

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• If I think of a joke that's really dirty and I think it's funny I'll try it but what I've found over the years is they just don't laugh. It doesn't work coming out of my mouth so it's like they taught me 'don't do that. Don't go that way or you'll lose me.'

  Demetri Martin

  Dirty, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

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• I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

  Angelina Jolie

  Should Have, People, World

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• What happens behind your eyes is more important than what happens in front of them. This is a reversal from the way that we have been taught and the way that we had experienced the world as five sensory humans.

  Gary Zukav

  Eye, Important, World

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• 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.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Running

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• I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Caring, Thinking, Evil

  Source: progressive.org

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• I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt my career? It taught me about life, how to take the bad with the good.

  Arnold Palmer

  Hurt, Careers, Ruins

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

  Arnold Palmer

  Guy, Looks, Defeat

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

  Nicole Richie

  Grateful, Parent, Everyday

  Source: www.buro247.com

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• I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.

  Mark Nepo

  Years, Silence, Twenties

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• But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Cousin, Taken

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• Many of the most important principles of intelligence cannot by taught at universities, from books, or through other temporal learning processes. Often these great principles are learned from afflictions, tribulations, and other mortal experiences. All that we learn in this manner will benefit us not only in this life but also in the next, for 'whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection'.

  Monte J. Brough

  Book, Adversity, Important

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• All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Practice, Body

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• They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Christian, Angel, Egypt

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• Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Should, Despise

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

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• Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• Religion taught us to return good for evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Taught Us, Evil, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2000). “The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Religion, Different

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “To the Protagonists of Pakistan”

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• Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Night, Civilization, Taught Us

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.54, North Atlantic Books

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• Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Children, School

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Self, Suffering

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• Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Children, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.89, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• 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.

  Bo Jackson

  Next Day, One Day, Vaults

  Interview with Billy Worrell, whatmakesagreatathlete.weebly.com.

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