#taught

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#focus #goal #just #me #one thing

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#approach #college #difficulties #find #our

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

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#concentrate #each #how #like #me

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#man #poor #self-taught #student #usually

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

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#half #i #sixth #taught #three

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#evolution #forward #happy #healthy #i

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic. ↗

— Lance Burton

#collins #first #harry #i #louisville