Taught Us Quotes - Page 9

• The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Adoption, Doe

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• To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Self, Earth

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• In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Character, Passion

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Mother, Growing Up, Buttons

  "Get to Know the Row" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2010.

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• You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

  Larry Kramer

  Fighting, Thinking, Numbers

  "Happy Birthday, ACT UP, Wherever You Are" by Larry Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

  Carlos Mencia

  People, Swim, Black

  "New Orleans Web Denizens Steamed Over Mencia's Orpheus Invite" by Lauren List, www.mardigras.com. February 05, 2009.

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• The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Rivers, Waiting

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• My dad used to open up photo albums and stuff and you'd have to tell a story about the picture but you couldn't tell the truth so you had to make up a story about whatever you were looking at. He really taught us how to lie.

  Sara Quin

  Dad, Lying, Albums

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• E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

  Lynne Cheney

  Taught, Educator, Wells

  Lynne Cheney (2016). “A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Evil, World, Lessons

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• The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.

  William Tyndale

  Spiritual, Teacher, Air

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• It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Heaven, Suffering

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• He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.

  Haile Selassie

  Sex, Tribes, Almighty

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• Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

  C.J. Sansom

  Moon, Corruption, Fine

  C. J. Sansom (2008). “Dissolution: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.293, Pan Macmillan

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• Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

  Phil McGraw

  Marriage, People, Way

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• I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sacrifice, Lessons, Matter

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• But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

  James Surowiecki

  Self, Worry, Regulation

  "Bankers Gone Wild" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honoring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us - that there is merit in doing what is different - and at the same time, by changing Nintendo in accordance with changing times.

  Satoru Iwata

  Groups, Different, Nintendo

  "Longtime Nintendo president dies" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2013.

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• I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Teaching, Opposites

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.

  Allen Newell

  Plato, Space, Long

  "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 125), March 1976.

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• They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Teacher, Teaching, Differences

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• For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can't we convert our anger for the larger good of society?

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Teacher, Parent, Priests

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• The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Kuwait, Victory, Facts

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• The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

  Harriet Martineau

  Heart, Mind, Atheism

  Harriet Martineau, Linda H. Peterson (2007). “Autobiography”, Broadview Pr

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• If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.

  Peter Sagal

  Cat, News, Want

  "Heavy Petting". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, July 4, 2015.

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