#taught

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#cannot #custom #insight #moralist #must

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. ↗

— River Phoenix

#climbing #consume #corporate #hands #just

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#being #fear #going #idea #lesson

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#always #been #bring #close #fortunate

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#being #good-natured #i #know #me

Most of us believe we can spot a drowning person when we see one. But we always make the mistake of thinking that drowning only involves what. believe it or not, you have missed quite a number of drowned and drowning people. Some of us are thought to save some one drowning in water, most of us can spot that too, but none of us has been thought to see the other kinds of drowners, nor how to save them. ↗

— chioma Nkachukwu

#drowners #drowning #drowning-one-s-sorrows #drowning-silence-poetry #find-self

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ↗

— Jack Adams

#class #first #first class #got #me

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#everything #experience #improve #keeping #little

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#hard #how #ian #ian mckellen #judi

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#depend #herself #i #man #must