“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.” SchoolSimpleTaughtGrewBandGrew UpHigh SchoolRhythmPianoChordsAunt Author:Cristin Milioti
“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.” PeopleThinkingJesusReligiousSimplePracticeTaughtMajorsNegativePoliceViolentHatefulLiberatedNegative ThoughtsReligious Practices Author:Richard Rohr
“Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings of this planet have still not absorbed this simple Truth, it remains the Truth.” WorldHumansStillsHuman BeingsSimpleChristianityTeacherTaughtPlanetsMessagesDiedRemainsForgivingEnlightenedSimple TruthsChristmas Time Author:Frederick Lenz
“[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.” SelfSimpleCenturyTaughtBritainAmbitiousEngineersMechanicIlliterateWorkmenSelf Taught Author:John Desmond Bernal
“Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.” WarSimpleStudentsTaughtNotionMythPeacefulSavagesAnthropologists Author:Lloyd deMause
“My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.” SaidTwoAgeWantedRememberMotherSongFatherHouseGivenCausesEnjoySimpleTaughtBrotherSixEarsInstrumentsSevenMusicalBoxesHearingPianoTunesPeterOrgansBangsEighteenFiddleOlder BrotherMusical Instruments Author:Pete Seeger
“Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.” NeedsHumansChildrenHas BeensYoungSimpleMeditationTaughtNervousInstructionNervous System Author:Deepak Chopra
“It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.” IfsWantIdeasFilmSimpleTaughtSceneCardsFeaturesFrankSimple Things Author:David Lynch
“Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday.” IfsMindFoundFatherSimpleBoysClearHeardTaughtLessonsYesterdayWorthless Author:Irving Pichel
“I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief.” InspirationalCoursesReligiousSimplePowerfulEnvironmentTaughtBelieverRitualElegantTaught UsReligious RitualsPuja Author:Dhirubhai Ambani
“Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and Hume and that laws must be simple....and indeed that the entire legal code must be simple enough that every citizen knows the entire law. If a person doesn't know the law....he shouldn't be held liable for breaking it or freedom is greatly reduced.” IfsKnowsPersonsEnoughLawSimpleTaughtCitizensComplexesOppressionCodeLocksLiableMadisonHumeMontesquieu Author:Oliver DeMille
“I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.” MenChildrenReasonCharacterSimpleTaughtColorJudgingKingsSkinsLuther Author:J. C. Watts