I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.
If you just stay away from junk, and stick with what your mom taught you, you're eating pretty healthy.
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone.
There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.
Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.
Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace th...
More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught her that people are clearer on what they want than th...
...I just don't think we could ever get our heads around the concept of learning to love a stranger". But you already do, the Indians replied. You didn't choose your siblings, and yet you learned to love them. Your parents shoved you in a room and sa...
Has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced ...
People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught...
Like sheep which, having been driven to a pasture, can now spread out at their leisure, the clouds began to drift. Afternoon sunlight sliced through into the still waters. The boomerang hung in the sky, and the boy thought he would have to find a new...
Thus did I receive, through the singing of these various hymns and the moral education that accompanied them, not only a religious, but a political schooling of sorts. For though the intertwining of morality and politics does not necessarily make for...
We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No e...
Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preserva...
