“There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.” — Ted Leeson Copy Share Image
I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
It has been an incredible journey for a singer like me who is self taught. — Sonu Kakkar Copy Share Image
I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style.… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to… — Yigal Azrouel Copy Share Image
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm not a trained chef. I'm a self-taught cook, and I want people to be like, 'Yo, I could do that! Maybe… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“The highest virtue lies in self-learning or self-taught education. For it is the path that all the greatest men or those who… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
We're so tribal in Britain about music. But my music - my guitar playing, the rhythms, et cetera - just express my… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen;… — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer… — Toru Iwatani Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by… — George Rodger Copy Share Image
“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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