“I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to know Shakespeare and got a chance to play great parts in Shakespeare, because it really teaches you - or taught me, anyway - everything.” ThinkingKnowsPlayBigsSchoolChanceTeachTaughtDramaGladMy Time Author:Andre Holland
“I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.” PeopleThinkingMayChurchTaughtLessonsActiveLife LessonI May Not Be Author:Julianne Hough
“I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.” ThinkingWayWritingLittlesRealCharacterSchoolBitsActingNovelTaughtCollegeLittle BitHigh SchoolConnectionsMethodMethod ActingReal Connection Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.” ThinkingWayMayTurnsCoursesTeacherSubjectsTaughtFascinatingProfessorsGreat Teacher Author:David McCullough
“If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.” IfsThinkingSchoolTeacherSubjectsTaught Author:David McCullough
“As an African-American, as a woman I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.” ThinkingWayHas BeensImportantMightSchoolCertainWhiteTaughtAspectMalesPrivilegeAfrican AmericanMight Have Been Author:Rita Dove
“I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantWould BeSchoolLeftHoursHalfSituationOpinionEconomicEventsTelevisionTaughtOughtNewsPressureRidiculousMediumsEveningJournalPublic SchoolHalf Hours Author:Walter Cronkite
“Many of the women who I've taught to climb have a better sense of balance than the men. I think it has to do with being a little more sensitive to it rather than relying on strenght. It's also a reflection of a passive attitude - balancing your way up the rock, rather than attacking it.” ThinkingMenWayLittlesAttitudeRocksTaughtHe ManBalanceReflectionSensitiveClimbsPassiveAttackingStrenght Author:Lynn Hill
“I'm in regular contact with people who are still in the military-friends, family, people I served with, men and women I taught at West Point-and I look at every military issue through that lens. What they say or think weighs heavily on my mind.” PeopleThinkingMenMindLooksStillsIssuesMilitaryTaughtMen And WomenWestContactLensesFamily FriendsWest Point Author:Tom Rooney
“Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they are to young to understand in the least, and often in letters which are almost illiterate. If children are to be taught to respect the work of American poets I think some better way might be found to do so- some way which would not make such an inconsiderate demand on the author's time.” IfsThinkingWayWritingChildrenMightAmericaYoungFoundHeardTaughtPoetDemandLettersBetter WaysIlliterateInconsiderate Author:Conrad Aiken
“To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.” IfsThinkingTryingHardAmericaMovingGrowsStruggleAliveTaughtReaderAppreciate Author:Alice Walker
“Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology or canon law, the Islamic civilization boasted hundreds of women who were authorities in Islamic law and Islamic theology and that taught some of the most famous male jurists and left behind a remarkable corpus of writings.” ThinkingWritingChristianLawLeftBehindsTaughtCivilizationAuthorityMalesTheologyIslamicRemarkableScholarLeft BehindRabbiCanonChristian TheologyCorpusJuristsIslamic Law Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl
“Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingSometimesMotherThreeRealizingMorningTaughtGiving UpSittingTouchingWorth ItNever Giving Up Author:Micah Lexier
“If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.” PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensTaughtTrainTrackBillionsUnconventionalTrain Tracks Author:James Dyson
“There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsBelieveMayUseBodyHappensRunningI BelieveTermBornRoomsHellMagicTaughtStrangeJudgingGoodnessUltimateDon't BelieveI Believe InStrangerBelieve In GodTrafficStrainLanesTubesFreewaysThose Who Judge Author:Charles Bukowski
“My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.” ThinkingMotherValuesMy OwnPayTaughtEqualFairnessFamily ValuesEqual Pay Author:Michael M. Honda
“What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?” ThinkingHas BeensEnergyTaughtWasteIntellectualChessBridgesOpponentsContestsSelection Author:Warren Buffett
“Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHas BeensReasonNextWishPowerfulTaughtSafetyMost PowerfulBelieve In GodInfancy Book:A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42
“Scientists believe that monkeys can be taught to think, lie and even play politics within their community. If we can just teach them to cheat on their wives we can save millions on congressional salaries.” IfsThinkingBelievePlayLyingCommunityTeachMillionsWifeTaughtScientistCheatMonkeysSalary Author:Jay Leno
“There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.” IfsThinkingChildrenWholeSchoolGenerationsHappenedTaughtCapableContrastNeurotic Author:Doris Lessing
“I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.” ThinkingHardEasyTaughtHard WorkGet BetterChange Yourself Author:Derek Jeter
“I think big-that's what my mother taught me. If you think small and accomplish it, what does it mean? Who cares? To me the sky's the limit, and I'm going to try and get there.” IfsThinkingTryingMeanDoeBigsCareMotherSkyTaughtLimitsAccomplishWho CaresThink BigSky's The Limit Author:Eli Manning
“Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit.” IfsThinkingLooksKindMeanLittlesDifferentWantedBitsTaughtLittle BitThrowing Author:Scott Kazmir
“I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.” PeopleThinkingCareMotherTaughtProjectsGrandmotherMy GrandmotherPositive Image Author:Lamar Odom
“Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I never understood snapshots. I was looking at them like, "This is horrible; that's not what a picture is supposed to look like." I was taught by these photos. So when I picked up the camera, though I had never done it before, I kind of already knew what I was doing.” ThinkingLooksKindMadeDoneKidsSeeingTaughtUnderstoodCamerasHorribleAestheticSnapshots Author:Jeff Vespa
“Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.” PeopleThinkingMatterFactsSpiritualTaughtMaterialsDemandOrdinaryAll ThingsAssumingBlockSpiritual LifeVehicleHonoredImplicationsWithdrawalImpervious Author:Joan D. Chittister
“If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.” IfsThinkingChildrenWould BeBeliefVirtueTaughtSuicideSuperiorsBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Richard Dawkins
“Why shouldn't you think it's crazy to believe in a green deer? All your life you have been taught to believe in only what you can use-to set on the table, to put in the bank, to build a house with. What possible use would a green deer be to anyone? Who would believe in a man with a blazing bush in his cart? Then let me tell you that it is beliefs just such as these that are the only hope of the world. Let me tell you that until men are ready to believe in the green deer and the strange carter, we shall not lift our noses above the bloody mess we have made of our living.” ThinkingMenWorldBelieveHas BeensMadeUseHouseBeliefCrazyTaughtStrangeReadyLet MeTablesGreenMessLiftsNosesBloodyCarterDeerCartsBlazing Author:Kenneth Patchen
“Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.” ThinkingHardArtistSongTaughtNormalImpactFolksHumbleHard TimesBe HumbleFolk Music Author:Janis Ian
“All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.” ThinkingShouldTryingMightChristianSexVoiceWalksTaughtSeriousBalanceAskingLibraryAlternativesTeenagerAbortionPregnancyThroatAdsAdoptionTeenageAbstinencePublic LibrarySex EducationGloria Author:Cal Thomas
“You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.” IfsThinkingFightingUnitedNumbersTaughtOne DayVisibleTaught Us Author:Larry Kramer
“I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.” ThinkingShouldDoneBeautifulFilmWhiteOne ThingMissingStudentsTaughtPaperMusicianTheaterDown AndFilledExperimentsComposerDotsBeautiful MusicRectangles Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“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. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.” PeopleThinkingWayBeautifulMotherCompassionAchieveTaughtExpressionAdvantageValuableFocusedFeaturesFriendlyTranslateSupportiveBeautiful PeopleExpressions Of LoveSupportive FamilyCompassion And Respect Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“I think we`re all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It`s sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.” ThinkingSometimesTeacherTaughtClimateClimate ChangeHarshEffective Teacher Author:Bob Inglis
“I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.” ThinkingCultureTaughtMaterialsAnxietyFilledGuiltEmbarrassingJewish Culture Author:Robert Mankoff
“The one who plays this game the best is Iniesta: he knows exactly when to go forward and when to drop back. He picks the right moment to do everything: when to dribble, when to speed things up and when to slow things down. And I think that's the only thing that can't be taught or bought. You can learn how to shoot and how to control the ball, but being aware of everything that's happening out on the pitch - that's something you're either born with or you're not.” ThinkingKnowsPlayMomentsGamesBornTaughtHappeningsPicksBallsDown AndSpeedRight MomentDribbleIniesta Author:Juan Roman Riquelme
“I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no respect for the teachers, their attitude didn't poison the writing that I was discovering for myself.” PeopleThinkingWritingLiteratureAttitudeTeacherTaughtHatredPoisonDiscoveringNo Respect Author:Craig Ferguson
“During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.” ThinkingMadePlaySongAudienceTaughtGrandmaChildbirthMy GrandmaHospiceGospel Songs Author:Erykah Badu
“I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.” ThinkingFirstsSometimesMotherSacrificeTaughtHigherInvestingListsPrioritiesGood MotherBeing A Good Mother Author:Michelle Obama
“These are the Rad instruments that are dying out in India. So, it's going well and I think now we are increasing the number of kids we have taught and of course we are helping out with other things too. It's based in India now. [The idea is to] perfect it in one place and then we'll expand.” ThinkingWellsIdeasHelpingKidsCoursesPerfectNumbersDyingTaughtIndiaInstrumentsRad Author:A. R. Rahman
“Some of the reasons why Muslims would look down on America or even countries that have democracy, is because that's what they've been taught all their life. And it's not really their fault if you think about it, it's their government's fault for teaching people that America, them over there across the ocean, they're the devil.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksCountryReasonGovernmentAmericaDemocracyTeachingTaughtOceanDevilFaultsReason Why Author:Cristian Machado
“My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.” PeopleThinkingWantTaughtMomLeavingMy MomOwn BusinessMind Your Own Business Author:Ray Charles
“Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.” ThinkingWorldTwoRealCountryEyeAgeWantedYoungMy OwnDecisionGrowing UpGrowingFeetTaughtThirdsReal WorldYoung AgeThird WorldKenyaThird World Countries Author:Chris Froome
“I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasCreativityKnow HowTaughtDisciplineSchoolingIdeas And Creativity Author:Lady Gaga
“I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look.” ThinkingWorldWellsLooksArtUseTaughtPhotographyPressesEntertainmentComplicatedEducatedSuspiciousArt WorldMisuseGeneral PublicDisillusionedWell Educated Author:Alfredo Jaar
“I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd say reading, writing, arithmetic and rhythm. But that should be a prerequisite, because then the quality of music in the world at least in the United States, would be much better, if everyone knew something about the piano and about music, they would know this is not good. Right now, there is so much music out that's not good, but no one knows the public doesn't know.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldShouldWritingMeanStatesWould BeSchoolCoursesReadingUnitedQualityUnited StatesTaughtRight NowMathematicsRhythmPianoArithmeticPrerequisitesReading Writing Author:Gary Bartz
“I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.” ThinkingReadingLaughingStreetsChildhoodTaughtDadConcernedRadioInterviewsWeekendMumTruckLove Of ReadingRad Author:Brooke Fraser
“Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they're afraid of learning about computers.” ThinkingFeelsHas BeensDifficultTaughtComfortableComputerAdultsDeep DownBrainwashed Author:Seymour Papert
“We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.” ThinkingYearsKindRealSpiritualMy OwnPoorStruggleGrowing UpPathTeacherGrowingTeachingTaughtDevelopmentNeededProveYears AgoPsychicsAllegianceSpiritual Path Author:Echo Bodine
“We are taught to reinvent ourselves all the time. And nature is teaching us. What is necessary for us to do to create sustainability? There's a shift that has to take hold in our thinking, and it's hard to know when it's going to click for the larger percentage of us.” ThinkingKnowsHardTeachingTaughtSustainabilityPercentagesClicks Author:Horst Rechelbacher