#taught

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be. ↗

— Allan Houston

#children #comes #day #down #end

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#fight #lie #me #mother #someone

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#charlie #dealers #first #ford #guy

'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important. ↗

— Janis Ian

#child #doing #first #hard #i

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay. ↗

— Paul Begala

#american #back #bill #bill clinton #clinton

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#because #borrowed #guitar #i #myself

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#argument #assumptions #euclid #examine #me

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#academe #academy #ancient #football #modern

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. ↗

— Donald Trump

#better #better off #experience #few #few things

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#crowning #evolution #far #glory #human