Teach Quotes
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Everything in your life is there to teach you something; you can be awake to it or asleep to it. I can't remember which master said this, but he said, when the monsters are coming, you have to let them eat cake. Feed them. The more you invite them in, the less scary they become.
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If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.
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In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote the album too.
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An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!
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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
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A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.
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By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.
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Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
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Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
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Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.
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For me, the hardest part is getting up and writing, that's the hard part. I always felt like I could teach someone to direct if I really had to. I feel like it's a skill that's passable, but writing... writing is the worst. That's what I'm doing right now, it's just the hardest thing that you'll ever do.
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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
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Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.
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Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
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Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
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Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
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Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
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Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
