The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.
I never was taught how to go into a meeting and talk about a tour and how to plan a show, but seeing that side of things [about] someone who wants to be a Unicorn but has to now be a boss and navigate this is a really powerful and interesting story.
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
It's not that I like you least [. . . ] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.
Those who taught you were wrong. I have never set down a "right" or "wrong," a "do" or a "don't. " To do so would be to strip you completely of your greatest gift - the opportunity to do as you please.
Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words. )
I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.
Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.
Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.
My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.
I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.
I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life
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.