Best willing & taught Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.”

Ifs Trying Years Grows Risk Taught Willing Performers New Things Improvisation

Author:Jack McBrayer

“He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.”

Wells Learning Teacher Taught Willing Learners

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

“[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.”

Children Belief Causes Generations Objects Taught Willing Burning Nationalism Veneration Fatherland Motherland

Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.”

People Ifs Needs Has Beens Today Information Danger Taught Willing Handle Drowning

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.”

Knows Writing Mother Perfect Rooms Minutes Taught Willing Ten

Author:Emma Donoghue

“A two-year-old can be taught to curb his aggressions completely if the parents employ strong enough methods, but the achievement of such control at an early age may be bought at a price which few parents today would be willing to pay. The slow education for control demands much more parental time and patience at the beginning, but the child who learns control in this way will be the child who acquires healthy self-discipline later.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.”

People Giving Persons Sides Wealth Taught Willing Letting Go Giving Up Primitive Bullshit Brainwashing

Author:Jim Morrison

“I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody,I was taught to love and forgive,which I do have in my heart,but please don't believe these crazy, horrifying things.”

Believe Heart Crazy Taught Willing My Heart Please Presses Forgiving Don't Believe Tabloids

Author:Michael J. Jackson

“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.”

“I love myself for all my mistakes and missteps. They have been very valuable to me. They have taught me many things. It is the way I learn. I am willing to stop punishing myself for my mistakes.”

Way Has Beens Mistake Taught Willing Valuable My Mistakes Love Myself I Love Myself

Book:Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul

Source: Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul

“One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay the price.”

Mean Choices Pay Principles Taught Willing Pay The Price

Author:Patricia McConnell

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