“My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to live with it and tolerate it. But I can't hide my feelings about its inefficiency and its not being productive.” WorldI CanFeelingsBodyMy OwnTaughtDecadesProductiveTolerateInefficiency Author:Paul Kagame
“Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.” I CanChallengesTaughtIceBeing The BestHockeyAnd Off Author:P. K. Subban
“Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.” SocialSportsPlayerTeamTaughtSkillsTeamworkDedicationGood TeamTeam PlayerSocial Skills Author:P. K. Subban
“My dad has always said to me, "where there is a will there is a way" and this is the type of dedication hockey has taught me. Being dedicated to this sport [hockey] has been my will to play.” WayHas BeensSaidPlaySportsTaughtTypeDadMy DadHockeyDedicatedDedication Author:P. K. Subban
“An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.” GovernmentWhiteGroupsPolicyTaughtInitiativeReservedCivil SocietyPastures Author:Nelson Mandela
“As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and the ability to boost total spending by enough to put people back to work. As it happens there are long lists of important public projects that cry out to be done.” PeopleLongImportantDoneEnoughGovernmentHappensAbilitySituationCryTaughtProjectsSpendingListsMotiveEntityTaught UsBoost1930sBack To WorkKeynes Author:Robert H. Frank
“I'm telling you, [ real people] are not mad at Al-Qaeda. They are not mad at ISIS. They are not mad at [Omar] Mateen. Mateen is a victim just like they are. They are a victim of this country. These angry, irrational Looney Tunes on social media - be it people who are commenting or originally posting - these people think they're victims of this country, too. They have been taught that!” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountrySocialMediaTaughtVictimAngryMadSocial MediaTunesAlsIrrationalIsisAl QaedaOmarLooney Tunes Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Your kids have been taught that there is a more equivalence between Martin Luther King and today's Muslims - a moral equivalent between today's aggrieved gays and lessons and Muslims. They're all victims of an evil and ill-formed United States of America.” Has BeensStatesKidsTodayAmericaEvilUnitedMoralUnited StatesTaughtKingsLessonsGayVictimIllUnited States Of AmericaLuther Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Progressives are concerned about reports of Muslim students feeling 'marginalized' and discriminated against after the shooting massacre by an Islamic terrorist in Orlando, but there is little concern that - for years - students in the United States have been taught to dislike their country.” YearsLittlesHas BeensCountryStatesFeelingsUnitedUnited StatesStudentsTaughtConcernConcernedTerroristShootingIslamicReportsDislikeMassacresMarginalizedOrlando Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The media is fully fine and hunky-dory with the idea that they may destroy somebody, and they think that's part of the job description. But you turn around and criticize them, and that's not permitted in the vacuum in which they live. They have free rein over you, because I guess this is how they define their constitutional responsibility. And since they have constitutional recognition, somehow they've all been taught at journalism school that nobody may assail them, that nobody may criticize them.” ThinkingMayIdeasSchoolJobsTurnsResponsibilityMediaTaughtFineJournalismRecognitionDescriptionOver YouCriticizeVacuumsReins Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.” FilmCoursesCareersTaughtHonorFortuneInspiredIncrediblesFilmmakerProtected Author:George Clooney
“Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some detail. Most education professionals, who often know a tremendous amount about the classroom, don't know much about the brain. That is one of the reasons why I am so skeptical about applying brain findings to the classroom.” KnowsReasonMightBrainStudyTaughtAmountFindingsScientistDetailsReason WhyGradesClassroomSkeptical Author:John Medina
“There's such a grace and understanding in the female persona when women have really come into their own. Part of that is to have children, and to be caring for those children, and not only in the care for them, but also in the nurturing and raising of them, they have to pass on their souls and their intelligence. And all those things can't be taught. It's something that, that in the essence of a woman, the essence of a mother, a mother knows!” KnowsChildrenSoulCareMotherUnderstandingGraceTaughtFemaleEssenceCaringPersonaNurturing Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.” WayMotherCompassionAchieveTaughtValuableFocusedFeaturesTranslateSupportiveSupportive FamilyCompassion And Respect Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“Stony Brook is a great school scholastically and I enjoyed my time there. It taught me a lot about life and about the future that I am living now. It is an honor to have graduated from there and to be recognized as an alumnus.” SchoolTaughtHonorEnjoyedMy TimeBrooksGreat SchoolsAlumni Author:Chris Algieri
“Tony [Walters] was one of the first international world-class athlete I had ever dealt with and I was lucky enough to have him as a coach and he taught me a lot about the mental aspects of training and competition.” WorldFirstsEnoughClassTaughtLuckyTrainingAspectCompetitionInternationalAthleteCoachesWorld Class Author:Chris Algieri
“My grandma always said, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I think it's just naturally in our DNA to be able to survive. We was always taught that: to survive. When you talking about slavery, it's to survive.” ThinkingWaySaidAbleTalkingTaughtSlaveryDnaGrandmaMy Grandma Author:Kendrick Lamar
“The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.” RealMomentsAttentionTaughtBuddhistPay AttentionReal Buddhist Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I simply wish my parents would have taught me about speciesism and how it was just as evil as racism, sexism and heterosexism. Sadly, my parents were lied to by their parents who were lied to by their parents and so on.” EvilWishParentTaughtRacismSexismLiedSpeciesism Author:Gary Yourofsky
“I think that every day we are taught lessons and sometimes we don't realize or see it.” ThinkingSometimesRealizingTaughtLessons Author:LaToya Jackson
“Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.” CertainTaughtTaught Us Author:Kesha
“Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this when I was eight. He can't shake hands. These are the basic building blocks of traditional masculine style, and he's a parody of it.” LooksFactsHandsFatherStyleBuildingTaughtTrumpEightTraditionalBlockTiesShakesMasculineParodyBuilding Blocks Author:Stephen Marche
“The trouble is that Millennials and many recent products of the public schools believe that America was made great, if they're even taught that it's great, if they're taught that it's great, you know what they're told is the reason? Diversity. There's diversity all over the world. You can go to places where there is diversity out the wazoo, folks. You can go to places all over the place world and you can find the most diversity, you can find perfect diversity, however you find it. You will not find a United States.” IfsKnowsWorldBelieveMadeStatesReasonSchoolAmericaPerfectUnitedUnited StatesTroubleTaughtProductsDiversityFolksPublic SchoolMillennials Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and there have been changes demographically in the United States since the days of its founding. So they're trying to tell you that the United States' greatness happened because of diversity. Well, go back and look at the days the country was founded, and they do. When they do that, they see how racist and bigoted this country was. they see the seeds for bigotry and racism and discrimination were sown at the founding, is how it's now taught.” TryingMindWellsLooksHas BeensCountryStatesBlackWhiteUnitedUnited StatesHappenedCenturyGreatnessTaughtDiversityLateRacismPopulationSeedsDiscriminationRacistBigotryFoundingTwentieth Century Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.” WritingSelfOrderTaughtSelf ActualizationActualization Author:Danielle Trussoni
“Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.” WellsRealCharacterShowsOrderTaughtShotsFunctionCamerasTiredAllowingInteriorsTaught Us Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.” ArtTodayTaughtWho I AmMartial ArtsTurtlesNinjaNinja Turtle Author:Greg Cipes
“Try not to worry what your parents think - try to help them see that you do live by the values that they taught you.” ThinkingTryingHelpingValuesParentWorryTaughtLive By Author:Deepak Chopra
“We're not served by only knowing our finest hours through film or media, or in the history that we are taught. I think the only way we have a chance to not make the same mistakes again, is to historically understand the bad behavior and mistakes we've made previously.” ThinkingWayMadeFilmHoursChanceMistakeKnowingMediaTaughtBehaviorFinestSame MistakesBad BehaviorFinest Hour Author:David Oyelowo
“We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.” ThinkingLooksHomeFeltGoalCommunityTaughtIndependentFree ThinkingOld Saying Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't so politically motivated. I felt that the world from an early age was disappointing. My father taught me about the bomb, and it was eye-opening. From then on, I thought grown-ups needed to do a better job. I still think that.” ThinkingWorldStillsEyeAgeWantedJobsArtistFatherFeltTaughtNeededMedicineOpeningAspirationBombsMotivatedDisappointingBetter JobsEye Opening Author:Patti Smith
“I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about everything: their marriage, the world, God, gender, identity, etcetera. Then, at some point, our own narrative develops too much integrity to live inside that story. We don't ever fully escape it, but we move into our own stories.” ThinkingWorldStoriesMovingParentBornToo MuchIdentityTaughtIntegrityGenderNarrativeGender IdentityEtcetera Author:Melissa Febos
“I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.” PeopleKnowsWritingWellsMayMeanPersonsCertainSportsTeachCuttingTaughtPoetMastersMy FriendsAreasPracticalsLocalsAdmireBoatRemoveFascinatedMasteryOrgansBeesMidwifePractical Experience Author:Sylvia Plath
“It'll be taught in homes that it's not okay to make fun of a kid because he's gay or it's not okay to make fun of a girl cause she's fat. But that we have been living for so long in a culture where so many people's parents supported those beliefs that there wasn't any infrastructure for children understanding right and wrong in those situations, if that makes sense.” PeopleIfsChildrenLongHas BeensHomeKidsCultureGirlBeliefFunCausesParentUnderstandingSituationTaughtGayOkayFatsMake SenseInfrastructureNot Okay Author:Lena Dunham
“One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.” KindDifferentSometimesBigsSchoolTogetherSocialClassStudyEffectsTaughtInvolvedEatingMajorsSittingOrganizationImpactMereBackgroundsMealsBarriersBig ThingsSchoolingSitting DownChattingDifferent BackgroundsSocial ImpactEating Together Author:Amartya Sen
“In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy, and makes itself seen, heard, smelled, tasted, felt - "perceived." But a closer examination of the data suggests this is incorrect. The brain is properly thought of as a mostly closed system that runs on its own internally generated activity.” WayRunningFeltViewsBrainHeardTaughtActivityPerceptionDataHierarchyExaminationSensory Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsSchoolJobsLastsAmericaPastHateSeeingMediaTaughtCollegeTvsProductsAdultsBlameProducersEducatedJournalistEditorsDisagreePublic SchoolCommentatorsSchool System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I've always been this way. My father taught this to me. Here's the thing, you have to understand; the thing about having money: Money and fame don't change you, all it does is allow you to be more of who you are anyway.” WayDoeFatherTaughtFameWho You AreDon't ChangeMoney And Fame Author:Steve Harvey
“[ Angel series] really taught me that acting is not just about being emotionally challenged. It's about being physically challenged. And I enjoyed both aspects of that.” ActingTaughtAngelAspectSeriesEnjoyed Author:Julie Benz
“There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to decline with increasing industrialization and education. The US, however, is off the chart, ranking near devastated peasant societies. About 1/2 the population believe the world was created a few thousand years ago: the justification for the belief is that that is what they were ordered to believe by authority figures to whom they were taught one must subordinate oneself. And on, and on.” WorldYearsBelieveBeliefReligiousStudyFiguresTaughtThousandAuthorityYears AgoOneselfPopulationFactorsDeclineJustificationThousand YearsPeasantsFanaticismSubordinatesDevastatedRankingIndustrializationAuthority Figures Author:Noam Chomsky
“My father was married to mother 'til the day he died, for over 64 years. He's why I kept trying to get the marriage thing right. All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.” TryingYearsMadeHardMotherFatherGrowing UpGrowingTaughtPeriodsMarriedDiedMommaDressersMy Momma Author:Steve Harvey
“I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.” GivingHardSchoolTogetherMotherFatherTeacherTaughtRaisedSundayGiving BackSchool TeachersSunday SchoolSunday School Teacher Author:Steve Harvey
“[Kyle Chandler] taught me how to listen very well and reacting. There's a lot of improv. And to be able to do that on the spot you really have to be in tune with what the other person is saying instead of just waiting for your cue line or waiting for a word for you to deliver your next line.” WellsPersonsAbleNextWaitingLinesTaughtSpotsTunesReacting Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff. Veteran moves.” PeopleUseBodyMovingStuffTaughtVeteranDribble Author:Tim Duncan
“In the army, all combat officers are taught the "Estimate of the Situation": When you are faced with a problem - take that hill, or in business maybe grow your market share - the first thing you do is to make an analysis of your environment.” FirstsProblemGrowsSituationEnvironmentShareTaughtArmyHillsAnalysisCombatOfficersOur Environment Author:Colin Powell
“Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.” WantMatterMightAsksAnswersClearAchieveMilitaryTaughtObviousWhat You WantStatements Author:Colin Powell
“I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me - and, you know, we live in a world where there is a constant feed from social media, the news, etc., of things that can scare us. And we become so anxious because human beings are meant - are designed to be sensitized to dangerous stuff.” ThinkingKnowsWorldHumansSocialStuffHuman BeingsMediaDangerousTaughtNewsConstantSocial MediaEtcScareAnxiousPakistan Author:Mohsin Hamid
“In the military, we are also taught to only use one third of the available decision-making time, so that our subordinates have time to go through their own decision processes when they learn what we want them to do.” WantUseProcessDecisionMilitaryTaughtThirdsAvailableDecision MakingSubordinatesMaking Time Author:Colin Powell
“The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.” ParentTaughtStem Author:Zoe Kravitz
“I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were in the computer industry and they just taught the kids programming at, you know, age eight and nine and they just went on into the industry with their parents.” PeopleKnowsLooksKidsAgeParentSuccessfulTaughtIndustryComputerEightNineProgrammingSuccessful PeopleAutismAspergers Author:Temple Grandin