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When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
You need to have that killer instinct. It can't be taught. Where does it come from? A couple slaps. A couple things you had denied to you.
Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform.
I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.
We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.
I have incredible respect for customers and peers - my curriculum is very strong because I was taught by my clients' reactions to my work.
I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.
One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.
My stepfather is my mentor. He's also like a father to me. He taught me how to be a man, how to carry myself and how to handle my business.
There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.
Why English music is being taught in some schools? The government should make arrangements to promote Indian classical music among students.
Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.
My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.
We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.
We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.
All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.
When we move beyond information toward transformation, we savor the truth of seeking to do life "under the Word" as the ancients have taught.
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.
In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.
The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
I was on 'Strictly' because I was getting stage fright. I was taught that I had to imagine what a good outcome would be and be happy with it.
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.
The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.
I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.
What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.
My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.
In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.
My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.
Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel.
The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.
I use the lessons my father taught me every day. And I believe the simple value of integrity matters, even in a complicated place like Congress.
I'm not a natural. I had to teach myself - or be taught - everything I do. I just spent hours and hours in the mirror mimicking Michael Jackson.
I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.