#taught

The truth is lived, not taught. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#taught #truth #truth is

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#around #better #come #doing #family

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. ↗

— Robert Huber

#chemistry #could #easily #follow #get

From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#always #competition #down #eat #garden

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#because #developed #different #early #early age

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#bridge #discrimination #endless #equal #field

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me? ↗

— Jay-Z

#cool #guy #hard #home #how

I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself. ↗

— Guy Forget

#coach #great #had #helped #himself

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence. ↗

— Anna Torv

#had #i #me #mother #self-confidence

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#away #been #behavior #blown #blown away