“I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the kingdom. God has taught us that about people of color, about women, and now I think God is teaching that about gay and lesbian folk. And I am humbled and privileged that I might be playing a very small part in that grand and wonderful plan of God's.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveMightMovingI BelievePlansWonderfulTeachingTaughtColorGayFolksKingdomsBelieve In GodNew ThingsPrivilegedTaught UsSmall PartsAlways Moving Author:Gene Robinson
“These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old.” ThinkingYearsTaughtDemocratThese DaysModerates Author:Ann Coulter
“I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.” ThinkingJesusChurchTaughtTaught Us Author:Martin Sheen
“[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something beyond its mere ordinary meaning, while also retaining all the qualities of that ordinary meaning. In other words, it's a bear, but it's also suggesting something else, just by virtue of the attention to it. But it's not "symbolic" in that way we are taught to think about things in poems.” ThinkingWayCoursesAttentionQualityVirtueTaughtBearsOrdinaryMerePointingSymbolicSuggestingRetaining Author:Matthew Zapruder
“I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.” ThinkingOrderIndividualPolicyTaughtInvolvedPatientI RealizedPhysicians Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
“I think the most reliable way to teach it is through reading work aloud over and over. Many prose writers been encouraged to do that, but that might be changing. Denise was the one who taught me to develop my ear. I never knew how to listen to writing until she started reading her work to me.” ThinkingWayWritingMightReadingTeachTaughtEarsProse Author:Paul Lisicky
“People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensReasonTaughtStressTrauma Author:Kate Zambreno
“Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The Bear." That poem impressed me so much that I memorized it. I used it for years when I taught in prisons. It's a powerful extended metaphor for what the writing life is really all about. It's a uniquely powerful poem about self-transformation, and that's what we're asking, really, beyond even our objection to the war. We're asking people to look at themselves and think about what might be possible with a little self-transformation.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsFirstsLooksLittlesWarSelfBigsMightLife IsUsedVoicePowerfulWonderfulTaughtBearsFirst TimeTransformationAskingPrisonMetaphorImpressedWriting LifeHollowObjectionsSelf Transformation Author:Sam Hamill
“People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.” PeopleThinkingI CanDreamCan DoTalkingClassSuccessfulPlayerFootballInspireTaughtFitTrainingHollywoodTrainWestFollowingOpeningFormerCuteBeing SuccessfulGymMatesLocationAustralianLukeI Can Do ItFootball PlayerMiltonWest Hollywood Author:Dayna Devon
“I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.” ThinkingLooksHappenedFiguresTaughtOne DayPassive Author:Junot Diaz
“My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.” ThinkingMenWorldStillsCareKidsChristianYoungMotherFatherStrongInspiringExampleTaughtSixTake CareGood ManMothers DayBe YoungYoung Ladies Author:Magic Johnson
“Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack any other religion and nothing bad will come about, but I think those that are extremists, the way they are taught or the way, as I'd like to say, "brain-washed." they're not of sound mind, They're of a different mind.” ThinkingWayMindDifferentSoundBrainSubjectsTaughtExtremesTopicsExtremistTouchySound MindDifferent Minds Author:Charlie Benante
“Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayYearsHumansFactsLastsTurnsCoursesDifficultFictionProgressTaughtProjectsScientistClaimsRelationScience FictionHuman LifePaceUnderestimateScopeWay Of ThinkingTaught UsSingularityScientific Progress Author:George Pattison
“Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.” ThinkingWayFeelsYearsMadeTwoDifferentLastsValuesGrowing UpGrowingTaughtEuropeBoatDifferent ThingsAffectedExploringMobileMississippiAlabamaCargoRougeBatonBaton Rouge Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.” ThinkingWayHas BeensMomentsSpeakVoiceTaughtResurrectionSeminary Author:Frederick Buechner
“I think it [my first heartbreak] probably just taught me that you will always heal. That this too shall pass. The first time you feel that sort of pain, you think it's never going to go away. Once you do survive it, you realize you can survive anything.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsPainRealizingTaughtFirst TimeHealGoing AwayThis Too Shall Pass Author:Zoe Kravitz
“My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.” ThinkingKnowsWayFacesTaughtRacismGrandmotherRacistMy GrandmotherNeuroticTaught UsMichiganPsychotic Author:James Earl Jones
“I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.” ThinkingDoeRememberThreeChurchMemoriesCitiesStreetsBuildingTaughtKingsNeededWalkingSoldierBrokeSundayCopPalmsRemember WhenGreat WorkLutherRiotPalm Sunday Author:Ian MacKaye
“Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.” ThinkingWayFatherLinesGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsTaughtSonDoctorsSensitiveGenesCoalMinersEither OrCoal Miners Author:Rosanne Cash
“I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.” ThinkingStillsHardParentTaughtHard WorkOptimism Author:Samuel Alito
“I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensChangedTaughtPatternsUnnecessaryHabitual Author:Louise Hay
“Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.” PeopleThinkingArtWarBodyTogetherCulturePiecesStreetsRocksExampleMovementTaughtIntellectualHappeningsMovedActivismAnti WarRock And RollConstructsEnergeticEmbodimentSeize The DayAnti War Movement Author:Eve Ensler
“The earliest issue I can remember going through was body image issues. I was a chubby little kid and I got made fun of for it. I dealt with horrible, horrible self esteem issues, and I still struggle with that. I think it's what taught me a lot of empathy and compassion, though, but there are those days where I look in the mirror and I still see twelve year old fat Sara.” ThinkingYearsLooksLittlesMadeStillsI CanSelfBodyKidsRememberFunCompassionStruggleIssuesSelf EsteemTaughtEmpathyMirrorsHorribleFatsEsteemTwelveLittle KidBody ImageCompassion And EmpathySelf Esteem Issues Author:Sara Bareilles
“We wound up taking my enterprise inside marketing, branding, management, finances. We went in there [Sisterhood of Hip Hop show] and taught them a little bit about everything in hopes of them being able to have some takeaways that they'd be able to use in the future for their own careers. And I think we were pretty successful.” ThinkingLittlesUseShowsAbleBitsCareersSuccessfulTaughtLittle BitManagementMarketingHip HopWoundsFinanceHipsEnterpriseHopsBrandingSisterhoodTakeaways Author:MC Lyte
“You know, you work hard but play by the rules, you can rise. You can do well. That's what we're taught. That's what we believe. That's what we think of as America. Problem is, there are just generations of people in this country who do not think that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveWellsCountryHardPlayProblemAmericaCan DoGenerationsTaughtHard Work Author:Paul Ryan
“We do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information that is given to us is given to us in a linear manner ... we are taught to communicate in a way that is actually constricting our ability to think.” ThinkingWayBodyGivenAbilityInformationTaughtCommunicateLinear Book:Information Anxiety Source: Information Anxiety
“Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.” ThinkingStillsWholeSchoolRememberLanguageEnjoyTaughtRemember WhenCursive Author:Anne Carson
“If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at it as something you have to do because someone says this is what you have to do to be a professional, you know, learn it because you're curious about it and then I think you'll have a much better creative sense and enable this inner voice to come out. These things are not taught and are not encouraged.” IfsThinkingKnowsDoneEnjoyVoiceCreativeTaughtCuriosityCuriousInner Voice Author:Terry Bozzio
“People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.” PeopleThinkingWritingPersonsI CanCharacterTeachTaughtSentencesDialogueDecent Author:Ann Patchett
“Being a able to work with Reid [Corneilus] one on one those two seasons were great he taught me the ins and outs of pitching and what I needed to do to be successfull. My first Two years of pro ball I was under the instruction of John Duffy who was excellent as well. With out those two helping me through out the way I dont think I would have been able to excel as much as i did.” ThinkingWayYearsFirstsWellsHas BeensTwoHelpingAbleTaughtNeededSeasonsBallsExcellentTwo YearsInstructionPitchingOne On One Author:Graham Taylor
“The repeal of don't ask, don't tell didn't change things for transgender people in the military. What it has done, though, I think, is it has taught our military leaders that they don't need to be afraid of these issues.” PeopleThinkingNeedsDoneAsksLeaderIssuesMilitaryTaughtTransgenderMilitary Leader Author:Allyson Robinson
“Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveLooksWholeFactsMightHappensAbleFacesLife IsTermTaughtConstantBeing TrueLayersDurationPeeling Author:Alicia Keys
“I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.” ThinkingWayWantImportantFightingLove IsTeachTeachingExampleTaughtMomWhat's ImportantBeing A MomBeing CoolLove Being A MomI Love Being A Mom Author:Alicia Keys
“I knew I had found my life's passion after writing my first column for The Washington Post. The response was like nothing we had seen in the business section. Everyday people were writing that finally someone was speaking to them in a way that was understandable. I think we were all shocked at how many readers wrote in to say that they too had a Big Mama who taught them about money.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingFirstsBigsPassionFoundTaughtReaderResponseEverydayPostsSectionsShockedMamaColumnsBig Mama Author:Michelle Singletary
“My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.” ThinkingWorldYearsMadeHomeBigsSchoolBlackRolesAdviceCryTaughtModelsHigh SchoolPaidFinancialSavedCoreNewspapersFinanceGrandmotherRole ModelsNurseStemRetiredSkepticalMamaPaychecksColumnistsSchool EducationPersonal FinancePaid OffBig Mama Author:Michelle Singletary
“Wherever you go it's the same fear. And the same protective devices. There is one big error I think and partly my fault which is that a lot of things are taught to beginners which you can cast off later on.” ThinkingBigsTaughtErrorsFaultsCastsDevicesProtectiveBeginners Author:Keith Johnstone
“I think Peter Norman recuperated in the sense that people who knew who Peter Norman was, he built his character around the legacy of his family, in terms of what they taught him about equality and justice for all.” PeopleThinkingCharacterTermJusticeTaughtBuiltLegacyPeterEquality And JusticeJustice For All Author:John Carlos
“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
“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
“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
“I think that every day we are taught lessons and sometimes we don't realize or see it.” ThinkingSometimesRealizingTaughtLessons Author:LaToya Jackson
“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 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