Taught Quotes · Page 25

Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term,…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.

— Cassie Scerbo

Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…

— Edward Said

My own philosophy is that you don't really belong to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when…

— Jacob K. Javits

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing…

— Victoria Chang

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

— Carolina Herrera

Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary.…

— Ethan Gilsdorf

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set…

— Charles Spurgeon

The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

— Frederick Lenz

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used…

— Willie Mays

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent…

— Cathy Guisewite

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is…

— Donald Miller

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

— Chris Brown

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

— Joycelyn Elders

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught…

— Julia Child

Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy,…

— Anonymous

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself,…

— Tori Amos

My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically,…

— Saul Rubinek

We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of…

— Marge Piercy

When I was in Stephen Poliakoff's 'Playing With Trains,' someone wrote that I was 'moon-faced'. That taught me not to read my…

— Lesley Sharp

The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

— Sylvia Boorstein

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the…

— Henry Bolingbroke

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as…

— Gavin Bryars

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should…

— Peter Thiel

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

— Rudyard Kipling