#taught

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 think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught. ↗

— Fred L. Turner

#developed #focus #i #i think #people

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. ↗

— Alice Walker

#against #coconut #collapsing #defending #father

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#drape #ever #formal #had #i

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#liberty #people #regard #representative #sentinel

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ↗

— James Welch

#also #anyone #become #bit #could

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ↗

— George Whitefield

#angels #christ #desire #fall #first

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#big #come #excited #having #her

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest." ↗

— Bill Cosby

#brother #child #did #discovered #eggs

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people. ↗

— Fred Couples

#hasn #i #lot #much #people