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“My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.”

Way Inspiration Certain Decision Taught Habit Dad Honor My Dad Debt Lofty

Author:Anne Lamott

“Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.”

Sports Goal Voice Identity Taught

Author:Mia Hamm

“I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.”

Knows Book Hands School Mother Know How Pieces Taught Paper Adults Library Shelves

Author:Joan Didion

“Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.”

Way Reality Easy Sacrifice Honest Taught Taught Us

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Real Joy Values Grows Understanding Born Creative Taught Planets Adventure Expression Illusion Harmony Reaching Creative Expression

Author:Richard Bach

“With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.”

People Want Kind May Taught Blessing Majors Draws Tests Disaster All Kinds Reverse Magnet Bankruptcy

Author:Leslie Parrish

“I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.”

School Remember Guy Teacher Taught Tough Catholic Math That Guy Catholic School Remembers Everything Math Teacher

Author:Meryl Streep

“People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.”

People Needs School Deals Millions Plans Taught Amount Dollars Investment Billions Tiny Daily Life Small Amounts

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.”

Love Humans Heart Hands Faces Race Doubt Taught Sorrow Dear Human Race Heart Love Puzzled

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments; others gave me opportunities beyond my wildest imaginations. Authors and speakers set good, solid examples of high standards and lofty goals for me; mature, committed Christians nurtured and instructed me.”

“I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.”

Thinking Children Wish Taught Thoughts Become Things

Author:Louise Hay

“The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an expert in classical music. I don't want to say something that ends up in print and somebody comes running after me with a shovel, but they're taught for each note to stand alone in a very deliberate kind of way, which is really different than how notes are strung together in old-time music to create rhythm.”

Way Want Kind Different Ends Running Together Produce Taught Notes Rhythm Experts Print Bows Deliberate Classical Music Stand Alone Old Time Shovels Violinist Old Time Music

Author:Bruce Molsky

“The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.”

“No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.”

Needs Kind Mean Teach Taught Be Kind

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious hatred is mainly a question of peace. This concept is not anchored in the same way in the consciousness of Turks, which has to do with the fact that the secular was forced upon us by the army.”

Way Years War Facts Religious Consciousness Taught Concepts Hatred Army Bloody Secular Atrocities European History Religious Hatred

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“My sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.”

Humor Wanted Funny Dog Taught Cat Pet My Sister Bark

Author:Chic Murray

“The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.”

People World Opportunity Military Taught Discipline Army Soldier Plus Customs Cowboy

Author:Tom Johnson

“Rastafari is our king or emperor, and being a king, being an emperor you've been taught all the ways of the ancestors. With the knowledge and teachings and studying his majesty, I've learned to put all these principles and precepts into the music, so that is how it inspires me to be singin' good songs and makin' good music for the people. Natural.”

People Way Song Natural Principles Study Teaching Inspire Taught Kings I've Learned Ancestor Majesty Emperor

Author:Sizzla

“If you are well educated, and especially if you are a health professional, you will have to unlearn much of what you've been taught and start afresh with the rather disruptive thought that natural healing may actually work.”

Ifs Wells May Natural Healing Taught Educated Disruptive Unlearn Well Educated Natural Healing Health Professionals

Author:Andrew Saul

“Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.”

Has Beens Use Taught Drug Safe Medicine Consumers Vitamins Moxie

Author:Andrew Saul

“We have been taught to "just eat a balanced diet." We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works.”

Has Beens Natural Healing Taught Truth Is Diets Balanced Balanced Diet Natural Healing

Author:Andrew Saul

“I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.”

Thinking Art Self Sometimes Happens School Film Bits Taught Creatures Approach Filmmaker Unusual Angle Animation Art School Film School Self Taught

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppressing the femininity within themselves, raising up male values as governing values. Because that's what we've been taught to do, just as every woman has. Misogyny isn't just something that affects women. It affects men.”

Men War Values Individual Taught Males Rage Every Man Misogyny Masculinity Femininity Spectrum Governing

Author:Antony Hegarty

“I did spend about 5 years in the Griffin Theatre Company in 1978 actually , and worked therefore about 5 years on a voluntary basis. This was very much as a amateur, doing things like mopping the floor, handling props, setting up scenery, etc. I never acted, and don't think I'm an actor, but those years in the theatre taught me a lot about professional theatre.”

Thinking Years Actors Company Taught Bases Theatre Setting Settings Etc Props Scenery Mopping

Author:Robert Dessaix

“One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.”

“The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"”

Made Humor School Funny Taught Doctors Medicine Medical Noise Medical School

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.”

Littles Taught Train Patient Focused Concentration Be Patient

Author:Hiromi

“My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.”

Art Different Use Strong Teacher Taught Color Perspective Summer Draws Foundation Wings Mediums Uncles Art Teacher Strong Foundation

Author:Kadir Nelson

“My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident.”

School Born Class Taught Dad My Dad Be Confident Upper Class Glasgow

Author:Rankin

“My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever since. It's something I've always done. And when you're really young, and you play music for people, people get really excited, so you get this inner sense that you are good at it, even though I've always been really not good at it.”

People Thinking Done Play Young Three Taught Dad Musician My Dad Excited Get Real

Author:Bob Schneider

“When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.”

Thinking Mother Leader Taught

Book:Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success

Source: Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success

“It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.”

“Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.”

Book Law Sides Religious Teaching Taught Higher Medicine Raised Profession Household

Author:Woody Allen

“I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.”

Knows Years Has Beens Mother Taught Seven Thirty My Sister Seven Years

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.”

Ifs Feels Long Made Said Running Fun Parent Realizing Taught Taste Safe Long Time Raised Tyranny Fuel Shrinks Good Taste

Author:John Waters

“I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we were taught - and we are still led to believe - that the most important value is obedience. But that obedience in the name of religion or patriotism ultimately takes our souls. So I think it's this larger issue of what is acceptable and what is not; where do we maintain obedience and law and where do we engage in civil disobedience - where we can cross the line physically and metaphorically and say, "No, this is no longer appropriate behavior."”

“Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them, would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong.”

Men Trying Humans Has Beens Motivational Remember Speak Strong Sin Taught Lessons Pages Weakness Weak Heal Great Things Cures Dirt Life Strength

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“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.”

Inspirational Courses Religious Simple Powerful Environment Taught Believer Ritual Elegant Taught Us Religious Rituals Puja

Author:Dhirubhai Ambani

“None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing.”

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Wanted School Father Women Change Inspiring Teacher Taught Brother Inspirational Life Blame Faults Bad Ass Your Brother

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.”

Leadership Taught Caught Enthusiasm

Author:Mark Twain

“That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.”

Should Two Hard Stories Able Film Language Taught Dialogue Cinema Filmmaking Pretentious

Author:Nicole Kidman

“I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.”

Thinking Writing Taught Metaphor Etc Mixing

Author:Lydia Davis

“I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.”

Years I Can Used Given Water Can Do Five Taught Band Clubs Spain 1960s Skis Dave Skiing Water Skiing

Author:Tony Blackburn

“My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud.”

Years Persons Done Hands Artist Courses Advice Taught Proud Dad Projects Appreciate My Dad Supportive

Author:Molly Ringwald

“My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.”

Ifs Men World Needs Giving Trying Able Earth Courses Community Work Principles Taught Benefits Contrary Pursue Ruins Clothings Idlers

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.”

Ifs Men Needs Mind Wells Enough Truth Law Lying Left Force Taught Entrances

Book:The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

Source: The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

“To say that you have taught when students haven't learned is to say you have sold when no one has bought. But how can you know that students have learned without spending hours correcting tests and papers? . . . check students understanding while you are teaching (not at 10 o'clock at night when you're correcting papers) so you don't move on with unlearned material that can accumulate like a snowball and eventually engulf the student in confusion and despair.”

Knows Moving Night Understanding Hours Teaching Havens Students Taught Materials Despair Paper Tests Educational Spending Checks Confusion Clock Papers Correcting Snowball

Author:Madeline Hunter

“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!”

Men Life Firsts Shows Hands Heaven Lines Sun Changed Taught Kings Lessons Pages Garden Labor Letters Green Hunger Deeds Golden Soil Immortal Scholar Toil Peasants Charter Sturdy

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant.”

World Life Giving Heart Soul Values Speak Imagination Taught Unions Depth Mysterious Fulfillment Sensations Purpose Of Life Enchanted

Author:Thomas Moore

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