Taught Quotes - Page 26

If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.

[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.

My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.

We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

I’ve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

Jesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us.

I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.