#taught

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#budding #copying #favorite #gets #great

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#difference #gave #growing #growing up #i

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#act #am #because #bristles #ceases

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#evolution #fashion #history #i #i believe

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#even #i #mime #performed #studied

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

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#acquainted #becoming #been #began #bible

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#frankly #how #i #i was raised #looked

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#counsel #easily #err #fool #foolish

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do. ↗

— Kiana Tom

#being #focused #goals #healthy #i