#taught

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#critic #fire #generous #poet #reason

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#bending #directing #i #knowing #me

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#mom #nice #saint #she #taught

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#men #must #proposed #taught #them

Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself. ↗

— Jason Priestley

#because #deal #faced #fame #how

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#champion #compassion #courage #day #democracy

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#any #athens #been #bitterness #came

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

#difficult #even #extremely #grieve #how

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#badly #easy #especially #failing #father

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#because #business #cannot #deposits #failed