#taught

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

— Ed Bradley

#half #i #sixth #taught #three

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#audience #concert #instinct #into #me

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

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

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

— Edmund Burke

#arrogance #must #submit #taught #youth

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

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#been #civilized #humane #inhumane #nation

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix. ↗

— Vince Cable

#different #events #experience #kind #large

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#behavior #concept #condemned #feel #freud

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. ↗

— Albert Camus

#between #correct #everything #half-way #history