Top 262 Teaches Quotes

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

Dancing really teaches you to be aware of your body, and that transitioned well into wrestling.

I think that being a Christian, a Jesus follower, teaches you to be selfless, to be hard-worker, to be tough, to be persistent and I don’t know a single coach in the country that doesn’t want those qualities from his players.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

Zidane is a Real Madrid legend. He teaches us things in every training session – even just by playing with us.

Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I’ve had my share of injuries throughout my career. It’s humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I’ve been hurt, I’ve learned from that injury and come back even more humble.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can’t in your career have thought of everything.

I have different methods. Sometimes I just like to immerse myself in music; that’s a really good way to switch off from the world. I also like to listen to Eckhart Tolle, a very wise, very spiritual man, who teaches us how to live in the present.

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.

I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason for Aleister Black and Bobby Lashley to collide, because the world teaches us that sometimes there is no reason or rhyme for conflict.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It’s something you have to do on your own.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It’s just the nature of the words he writes.

A good business book teaches simple truths.

One of my brothers teaches karate at our gym and also handles the administrative side of the gym. My other brother is a fighter like me and teaches a class at the gym. So my brothers are always at the gym together training.

Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate‘s going down.

My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.

It’s not easy to retire. No one teaches you how. I found that out when I tried it the first time. I’m not a quitter.

I just want to do as many utterly different parts as I can get. Variety teaches you to act, and it keeps you fresh in your approach.

My main goal for taking up acting as a profession was to show that sport or MMA teaches you life skills that can be applied to any profession in the world.

Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you’ve got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

A good roommate teaches you to be the best.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

I believe life is an ‘experience ball.’ You throw it at someone, it picks up their response… it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Jiu-jitsu teaches you not to hurt your opponent, and that’s inside of me.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.

We live in a technology-driven world so I want to ensure our educational system teaches in a technology-driven way.

What matters is what you do. And this runs counter to what a lot of the culture teaches people about putting feelings first. By contrast, resilient people focus not on what they intend, but on what they achieve.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

I think all children like futsal. Making quick decisions, moving fast when you’re in difficulties on the pitch; it teaches you a lot. I’m passionate about this sport.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

It’s asking that never-ending question, ‘Who am I?’ which motivates me and takes me on a constant journey of self-discovery that teaches me so much. Will Everest make me more cautious? In reality, probably not.

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.

That’s what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

Nothing really teaches you for the film world.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have.

You just become more mature as a human being, having a child. The stakes are a lot higher, things are different. It teaches you to be patient and it’s changed me a lot.

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people’s plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

I moved frequently because my dad was in the army, so I was always new in school. I think if you’ve ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it’s a good experience for everyone to have, to feel like they’re not noticed, because it teaches you to be empathetic.

Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Life teaches you it’s not where you come from, it’s where you get to, and work is exactly the same.

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

I am playing a principal who also teaches maths in a government school in ‘Nil Battey Sannata,’ the story of which is based in Agra. He is a simple common man and a very interesting human being. His character will get the audience in splits.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents‘ passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It’s no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.

Listen to 100 of my sermons, and 80 or 90 of them will be about overcoming our struggles and the lessons God teaches us in valleys he allows us to enter.

I teach at USC, and it’s obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don’t cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

People don’t know how to listen, and it’s not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write – but nobody teaches you how to listen.

One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I’ve never been afraid of getting text down quickly.

The reason why I believe faith is important for a person is that it teaches you to trust.

Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words – how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?

I’d like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That’s what I think good art does – it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn’t.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

I think travelling teaches you that there is a change which is constant and you have to develop an adaptive nature to be part of this celebration and to be a part of this journey called life. It gives a great understanding of people and their culture.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby‘s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Though every film teaches me at least three new things, I don’t subscribe to doing homework about a character’s backstory unless it’s a historical role or one that requires training in accent.

I don’t like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

In Turkey, you’re not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

Theatre is a must for actors. They should try it at least once. It makes you disciplined, teaches you to respect your work, and boosts your confidence as an actor.

In my opinion, sport teaches valuable lessons in extremely rewarding circumstances.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there’s scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don’t live my life that way, and I don’t feel that’s what Baha’u’llah teaches.

India is one of the richest civilizations in the world, and we Indians are known for our love of our soil! But somewhere on our way to modernisation, we have been losing the very essence and spirit that we should be proud of – that is, our culture that teaches us to love and respect nature and nurture it.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

Scientific education is by far the best training for all walks of life because it teaches us how to assess situations critically and react accordingly. It gives us an understanding based on reverence for life-enhancing technologies as well as for life itself.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

I believe failure sometimes teaches you more than success.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.

Even though you think boxing is a contact sport, it teaches you not to fight on the street, to behave. It gives you discipline and self-control.

The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

Live news teaches you some incredibly strong lessons: that every day is a new day, and it’s never too late to fix something.

I think yoga gives me awareness not just about my body from the outside but also about my internal organs. I feel it’s very important because it teaches you self-realization of your body.

If the NBA teaches us anything, you have to have talent to win.

The advice I give is that, tempting as it is, getting the training you can get from law firm experience is really invaluable. It teaches you not just what you know but what you don’t.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

I like the idea of teaching kids how to lose. That’s a really important lesson in life. I don’t like the idea of doing leadline where everyone gets a blue ribbon. I think it’s unrealistic for kids and teaches the wrong lesson.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

By doing something repeatedly, one’s mind becomes sharper. It teaches you dedication.

I’m getting better and better each year that I’m playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient – something that is key to our game.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

It’s like ‘Pay It Forward.’ Everyone has seen that movie. If someone teaches you something that helps you in your life, why not pass it along and help the next person?

I don’t think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.

I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight.

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don’t teach on purpose, but I’m glad that it happens sometimes.

Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

The basic premise of ‘A Course in Miracles‘ is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.

I’ve studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It’s mainly about daydreaming. And the technique’s really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

I’ve learned to lose with a smile on my face. That’s what the Oscar teaches you.

Every university in America teaches ‘Clockwork Orange.’ I get fed up with it.

A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It’s magic of the mind.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom’s when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen – which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone’s day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Every character, every story that you do, it teaches you a lot.

We share the USTA’s vision to promote and expand the game of tennis. I have been playing the game since I was 6 years old with my dad and five brothers, so I know firsthand how it teaches life lessons: integrity, dedication, and competitiveness.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that’s beautiful. But I also believe if religion’s not your thing, that’s fine, too, just so long as you’re a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for – that he was in favor of amnesty.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more mature.

Experience teaches you a few tricks, but energy is key. Its what keeps you pumped.

I think it is important for young people to see other young people on television doing something positive with their life, making positive changes and growing. I don’t think there is enough of that on TV. I mean, we’ve got ‘Jersey Shore,’ and I don’t know what that teaches young kids.

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

Pain is mandatory for all of us. It’s what teaches us. Suffering is what’s optional. That’s what happens when we try to skip over the pain.

I loved being poor, because it teaches you humility.

I always felt like, ‘I hope Oprah teaches a class to everybody when they get super famous about how to use, responsibly, that blessing.’

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

I think change is good because it teaches you that it’s nothing to be frightened of.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

What a great poem teaches you – and it’s not intellectual at all – is the resonance in the language that’s heard there. This goes back to the very origins of poetry and to the very origins of language.

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you’re in trouble.

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don’t be the first guy through the door because you’re going to get all the arrows.

I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you’re in because, when you improvise, you’re in right now. You’re not in yesterday or tomorrow – you’re right in the moment.

A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food – but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I’m for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one’s son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that’s the best lesson they can ever learn.

Highway‘ teaches one basic lesson, One God creating so many human beings, but all different in complexities, layers and charactersiticis.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can’t learn it from art, you can’t learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Clearly there are individuals who don’t understand what the church teaches, or they think it’s so limiting.

I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association – my older sister passed away from diabetes – and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.

I don’t like the idea of things being off-limits to kids – like a fancy sitting room where they can’t touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.

I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It’s because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about… everything.

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals – and the lesson is not a flattering one.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I’ve always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That’s my style.

History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want.

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That’s why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I’ll enforce the death penalty… because it’s the law.

What’s great about having the live audience is you know immediately if you’re funny or not. That always helped when we were doing ‘Hannah Montana;’ it teaches you if something worked or didn’t.

I know when I have kids, when I’m older, I’m going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there’s really no ‘I’ in team.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies – at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

Covid-19 teaches us that we are all global citizens connected by a single virus that recognises none of our natural or man-made diversity: not the colour of our skin, nor our passports, or the gods we worship.

Playing sports is great when you’re young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

It really shaped me as a person going to DeMatha. Anyone that plays athletics or does music or does whatever, it teaches them to work to the best of their abilities.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

‘Shake It Up’ definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

If war teaches you anything, it is an appreciation of being alive.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Music teaches us how to work together, how to harmonize.

In the urban community, the church doesn’t just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

It’s not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It’s the setback. It’s the loss.

The thing about being an outsider… is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you’re constantly looking for the people who just don’t give a damn.

We’re built to need a thing. I do think everyone has god. It’s just, who’s god for you? Is it god in the sky? Is it Shantel who teaches hot yoga Thursday mornings? Is it the person you’re in a relationship with? I hope not.

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T’ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

I’ll tell you what 20 years teaches you – is that if one thing doesn’t last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

At heart, ‘Chef‘ is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him.

Everyone else went to drama school, and that teaches you how to dissociate from your character. I don’t know any technique! I’m just acting by chance – and by connection.

Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.

The film room teaches you how to do the job, how to study the game, how to teach the game from film. How to create an advantage for your team by knowing your opponent, and all their plays and tendencies. And there’s no better guy in the world that I’ve been around than Jim O’Brien at breaking down film.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

Iniesta teaches you something in every match.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The opportunity to create wealth in foreign banks exists only in the investment banking space. Working in a local company teaches you to think long term.

Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well… it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

She teaches me to be kind, punctual… and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren’t these things every mother should teach their daughter?

Just saying ‘I want this and I want that’ doesn’t do it. My boys share and share alike in the income that the organization brings in, so that teaches them the lesson: If you work, you can earn some money. That’s how life is; it’s the American way.

The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin’ nervous it can make you feel.

I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.

If you stick to what the Bible teaches, then you have everything you need: honesty, openness, friendliness, respect, tolerance, and much more, which is often lost nowadays.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how – the depths and variety of human imagination.

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques – which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you’re very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it’s part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

I do not believe in the ‘prosperity Gospel’ as I’ve been accused of believing it. I do believe that all good things come from God, and I also believe that God teaches us so much through our suffering.

Capitalistic society teaches kids to be No. 1, but true self-esteem doesn’t come from money. It doesn’t come from winning the Super Bowl.

Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.

Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

A rattlesnake that doesn’t bite teaches you nothing.

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don’t make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That’s what engineering training teaches you.

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it’s different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Living with eight other people teaches you what to give up and what to take from others, and you have to appreciate each other.

I’m interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children’s literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance – I read it all. Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.

Street football features all the basics of football: you get a lot of touches on the ball, it is fast, teaches you to think quickly and to be creative.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

Writing teaches writing.

History teaches that the overwhelming majority of elected officials follow movement builders outside government when it comes to the new and risky… Once you recognize it, demand it and reward it, it will happen.

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to you.

When you have a stroke, it changes you… It really teaches you, like, you have to live in the moment.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don’t really experience a text until you’ve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

The ups teach you something and when you fail in trying to do something… that also teaches you something. I have been accumulating the teachings that I have been getting from all the ups and downs. And all those teachings have made me a much more confident and experienced person.

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.