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With my creative writing students, I've taught literature more than I've taught writing courses'I just hope to make them better.

We're basically flying by the seat of our pants. The main thing we're taught is that theater is play, especially with children.

Through generations, they taught me that it's OK to be black and confident, black and loving, and to be black and a leader.

Through my skating, I've learned so much about myself. My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life. I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

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

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

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

In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

We've got a tremendous legacy to fulfill. You can't maintain a democracy and an empire simultaneously. Rosa, you taught me that.

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.

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

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

Experience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside.

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

You are not you, you are just reflections, you are reflections of everything that you think you know, everything that you have been taught.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

I think we`re all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It`s sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.

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

To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.

I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

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

Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

We have a lot of limiting beliefs that we're not even conscious of. Maybe your family taught you you weren't good enough or you weren't smart enough. Perhaps we're taught that this religion is good and all other religions are bad. It's endless.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

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

Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

What I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.

It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

What the NFL taught us . . . is that I can take an absolutely meaningless game between two teams that no one cares about, take them to Mexico, and turn it into an international marketing platform.

There are faculty members there I know I will keep in touch with for the rest of my life. They have taught me extremely valuable skills, and the best thing is I was able to utilize resources available to me for high school and my brief undergraduate career. There is a real push for high school ... to become more of a jumping board. With LCC I got my general education out of the way. Even if I flip majors, I am ahead of the game. And all of my credits are transferable to a four-year university.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

The exposure to all aspects of the field in Windsor Locks taught me a tremendous amount in a short time. Town planning just seemed like the right fit for me.

The creative activity of programming - to be distinguished from coding - is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques.

There are a lot of data warehousing folks without any understanding of the patterns. It doesn't get taught in business schools.

When I'd do something bad, my conscience would say, 'What would Grandma think?' ... She taught me the good side, to act right, be polite.

When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's pretty regular. But it was great to give the gift of music to people, seeing them learn. It's great to influence young people in a creative way.

We set the game of basketball back 100 years tonight. We got guys doing one-on-one's. Urbandale played like a team tonight. We certainly didn't do what I taught them to do.

The process of making art frees people from the pressures of their illness and offers them a means of expression for their underlying feelings. As a result, people are better able to cope with the effects of their situation. The Creative Center training taught us to deal with the many issues we will face when we make art with families, patients and hospital staff.

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught and to let them know that there were others who shared this skepticism.

Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.

I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.

I don't care what studio I'm in, I don't care what producers is producing it and I don't care what song it is because they taught me those things I feel so protected wherever I go as far as music.

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

The program also taught my kid how to be a man. He is now conscious about how he looks and he does things now that he would never have done before. This summer, for instance, he got his first job at the golf course.

Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

We had a very good relationship and he taught me a lot of things,

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

When I bought the business, I bought the name. Alan has taught me a lot over the years. He always made every customer feel like a friend and part of the family. He was always so good with people and so well-known in the community.

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them

We were close to doing what we were taught and what I expect. But the third quarter threw that off.

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.