“My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.” ThinkingMy OwnTeachSurpriseTake Me Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.” WaySchoolValuesMy OwnTeachPracticeStudyFailingMirrorsInvestmentEnvironmentalUniversityShockingYaleCitingAlma MaterYale University Author:Edward Norton
“Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.” PeopleThinkingNeedsI CanPlayMy OwnTeachTeacherTeachingGoodness Author:Itzhak Perlman
“I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.” KnowsYearsMy OwnTeachTeacherMeditationAll ThingsRamaReferringMediation Author:Frederick Lenz
“If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.” IfsWorldWayShouldSpiritOrderEnjoyWaterMy OwnPleasureTeachWineGlassesHumbleChalice Book:Either/or Source: Either/or
“I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.” IfsThinkingKnowsMadeHandsSchoolLeftBornMy OwnSituationTeachStruggleParticularBackgroundsBusinessmanJungleUpbringingParentalGreat EducationGreat BusinessGreat BusinessmanStruggling To Survive Author:Richard Branson
“All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.” MindTermMy OwnTeachProfoundPhrasesContradictionContemptShallowCunningDiseasedLife Teaches Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.” IfsMy OwnClassCareersTeachExerciseGainsWeightStudiosCompulsion Author:Richard Simmons
“I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.” PeopleHardMy OwnActingTeachDogMethodTricksBackgroundsOld DogUndercover Author:Mekhi Phifer