[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 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 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 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
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 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
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
Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“The lessons which are remembered the longest, Roland knew, are always the ones that are self-taught.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught. — Blackbear Copy Share Image
I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught. — Judah Friedlander 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'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
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
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'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
“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 think being self-taught is the only way of really learning things, because you have to question everybody. You don't simply absorb… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image