#taught

We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us ↗

— Sukant Ratnakar

#motivation #observation #self-taught #solutions #motivational

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again. ↗

— Jane Campion

#again #being #better #did #economic

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#children #come #education #enough #how

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#determined #entitled #freedom #history #i

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#catholic #deeply #i #i was raised #raised

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected. ↗

— Chris Christie

#being #between #choose #ever #greatest

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #am #being #i #i am

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #being #i #i do #learn

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. ↗

— Chuck Close

#art history #description #great #history #know