I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed.… — Fred L. Turner Copy Share Image
Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money. — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Ive been taught very early on that if you want to win a tournament youve got to beat anybody, and hopefully I… — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
I studied with the Maharishi for many years, and really didn't learn that much. But one thing that he taught me, I'll… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is… — Grace Meng Copy Share Image
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been… — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
You're wrong! That's not why Kagome was born! Kagome taught me how to smile, how to believe in people! Kagome was the… — Rumiko Takahashi Copy Share Image
For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you. — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her. — Amy Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE TEXTURE OF YOUR HAIR? WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE COLOUR OF YOUR SKIN?... — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well. — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
