Taught Quotes - Page 8

• They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Kids, Buddhism

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• These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

  Hari Kunzru

  Thinking, Play, People

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• The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord-it feels great-but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

  Criss Jami

  Determination, Hate, Humility

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.112, Criss Jami

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• My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dad, Believe, Ability

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• I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

  Cristin Milioti

  School, Aunt, Simple

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• I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Technology, Example

  "The Complete Bushisms". www.slate.com. June 24, 2004.

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• My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

  Olivia Williams

  Art, Children, Careers

  "Olivia Williams: My family values" by Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

  Lena Horne

  Games, Class, Way

  Lena Horne, Richard Schickel (1966). “Lena”

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• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Writing, Class

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• The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Ideas, Black, Excellence

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• Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is

  J. Allen Hynek

  Scientific Method, Should, Ridicule

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• Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

  Michela Wrong

  Hypocrite, Games

  Michela Wrong (2000). “In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo”, Fourth Estate

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• My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

  Mariano Rivera

  Uncles, Father, Like Family

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• Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

  Diana Lopez

  Girl, Mom, Strong

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• My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own.

  Alexa Chung

  Team, Hair, Years

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• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  Walter Becker

  Player, Self, Musician

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• Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.

  Wallace Stegner

  Teacher, Fall, Sight

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• Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Teacher, Father

  "Michael Jordan Refers To Dean Smith As His ‘Second Father’ In This Touching Statement" by Andrew Isaac, uproxx.com. February 08, 2015.

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• My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Real, Long

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• I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.

  Nikki DeLoach

  Summer, Mother, New York

  "Q&A: The Beautiful Nikki DeLoach of "Awkward"". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

  Ernie Isley

  Guitar, Self, Firsts

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Thinking, Parent, Way

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• There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

  Al Seckel

  Thinking, Skills, People

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

  Agnes Repplier

  Teacher, Too Much, Spirit

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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