#taught

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#self-taught #education

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing. ↗

— Mary Calderone

#aware #been #before #child #crucial

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#commerce #great #just #lessons #life

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. ↗

— Tom Bodett

#difference #given #lesson #life #school

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#different #i #just #me #moore

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

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#eat #figure #how #i #never

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#always #because #best #economy #given

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#arrogance #must #submit #taught #youth