I always wanted to be healthy and look good. I taught myself in my mid thirties about eating right.

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Those who do not know must be taught, not punished. We do not hit the blind. We lead them by the hand.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

Living on the farm taught me that life is unpredictable and you need to put money away for a rainy day.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves.

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Kids need to be taught that your dreams aren't just dreams. Whatever they are, it's OK to push for them.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

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