I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

I think music made me who I am. Music taught me what was gutter and what wasn't. Music taught me how to live.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience.

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.

Everything I know now . . . the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything . . . it taught me and made stronger.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Saying you taught it but the student didn't learn it is like saying you sold it but the customer didn't buy it.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

I was taught that we should look after the beam in our own eye before searching for the mote in someone else's.

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

That's how I was taught. That's how I was raised, to ignore the stupidity, continue on and do what I need to do.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we all do.

We have been taught to "just eat a balanced diet." We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

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