“I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!” BookCoursesTeachTakenColumbiaScreenwriting Author:Paul Schrader
“The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?” PersonsSometimesFactsHappensFatherStarsTeachTakenDependsBirthLowsThings HappenMake Things HappenHoroscopes Author:Sallust
“The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.” PeopleKnowsJesusChristChurchTeachIssuesTakenClearTeachingExampleSeriousContemporaryCommandCurseBlessRelevantSerious IssuesContemporary Life Author:Dallas Willard
“My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.” MayMadeReligionTeachTakenObjectsBrokenPromiseWorthyVow Book:The Good Life Source: The Good Life
“As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and illuding answers. They easily perceive when they are slighted or deceived, and quickly learn the trick of neglect, dissimulation, and falsehood, which they observe others to make use of. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children; since, if we play false with them, we not only deceive their expectation, and hinder their knowledge, but corrupt their innocence, and teach them the worst of vices.” IfsChildrenPlayUseCareAnswersTeachTakenTeachingWorstConversationExpectationsVicesTricksInnocencePerceiveNeglectFalsehoodDeceivingInquiryDeceivedHinderDeceitfulSlighted Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding) Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)
“The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.” MenHumansMeanArtBookActionFormTeachTakenMajorsAimDeeperPermanentThemeEthicalNormBe A ManGreat BookHuman ActionsEliotLiterary ArtPermanent Things Author:Russell Kirk
“You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!” PeopleWayWellsMadeKnownTeachTakenPhotographyShotsBest WayMediumsIntimateWell KnownPicture Taken Author:Cecil Beaton
“I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired through the care and help my father has given me. If I have learned anything, it is only because he took care to teach me. Had he not taken upon himself the trouble of instructing me, I would be as ignorant as many other children.” IfsChildrenLittlesHelpingWould BeCareFatherGivenTeachTakenTroubleIgnorantI Have Learned Author:Augustin-Louis Cauchy