#taught

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. ↗

— Alan Watts

#common sense #confronting #culture #feel #identical

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ↗

— James Welch

#also #anyone #become #bit #could

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#art #career #children #everything #fact

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#desire #history #passion #same #science

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#cal #computer #faculty #hikes #how

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#being #down #filmed #fish #florida

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#i #i love #last #love #russian

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#back #born #branch #days #ever

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. ↗

— James W. Black

#attitudes #baptist #beginning #born #both

You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#clay #courts #go #growing #growing up