Top 100 You Can Teach Quotes
#1. If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.
Sunil Mittal
#2. You can teach a bubbly person to repair shoes, but you can't put the personality into a grumpy cobbler.
John Timpson
David Shindler
#3. Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?"
"Peng you," I say.
"Peng you," she says, only instead of pung yo, it sounds like penguin. "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.
Andrea Cheng
#4. Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#5. You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.
Lionel Tiger
#6. One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from a deity who is testing and training you like a lab rat! And that is what we are saying when we fretfully ask, What can God be trying to teach me through this tragedy?
Robert M. Price
#7. How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Giorgos Seferis
#8. You can never learn Sales by reading books and watching videos, you can only get motivated by that.. To learn Sales (telesales) dial 300+ calls daily and (direct field sales) meet at-least 5 clients daily ...
Only customers can teach u sales!
Honeya
#9. The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?
Frederick Lenz
#10. You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
Abe Burrows
#11. You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.
Bryant McGill
#12. I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You're striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I'm available.
Doug Harvey
#13. We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.
Alan Snow
#15. They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.
Lemony Snicket
#16. When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.
Michael Bloomberg
#17. You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.
Rosamund Pike
#19. I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
Chris O'Donnell
#20. I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.
Gregory Colbert
#21. While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.
John Wooden
#22. You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Barack Obama
#23. I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.
Josh Homme
#24. What matters the most is who you love. Because when everything else is a distant memory, the people you love are all that's left. And love is the single most important thing we can do in our lives. Give it. Receive it. Teach others how to do it-Gran
J. Sterling
#25. Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. Give a man a fish
and a kettle,
and he may never feel its HIS kettle of fish.
Teach a man to fish around for his OWN kettle,
and that's when you get
a tasty home-made fish soup
that everyone can enjoy!
Cameron Semmens
#27. When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.
John Sexton
#28. I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.
Juliana Hatfield
#30. You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
Marva Collins
#31. It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.
Vida Blue
#32. Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
Vincent Van Gogh
#33. Mr. Denzi can teach us all something about accumulating wealth. Begin earning and investing early in your adult life. That will enable you to outpace the wealth accumulation levels of even the so-called gifted kids from your high school class. Remember, wealth is blind.
Thomas J. Stanley
#34. You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!
Si Robertson
#35. When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
Norman MacCaig
#36. If you can teach me something for my betterment then you get my respect and gratitude, but if you are here only to criticize, then I have no time or ears for you!
Maddy Malhotra
#37. Learn from me, for as I teach, I learn from you as well! Always be accountable to yourself and take complete responsibility for your own life. No one can do as much for you, as you can do for yourself ...
James A. Murphy
#38. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw
#39. People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
Hal Sparks
#40. This is wonderful for a young person, no matter what profession they're in. When you can see something and you can feel this attraction to it, then it becomes less of me trying to teach them as they teach themselves. They've got it and bang off they go.
Paul Rankin
#41. My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
Anne Lamott
#42. If you had a chance to do a TED talk, what would it be about? What have you discovered, what do you know, what can you teach? You should do one. Even if you don't do one, you should be prepared to do one.
Seth Godin
#44. Why can't you just say 'don't breathe the water' like a normal person?"
"Because I'm a doctor, and they teach us never to use little words where big ones will do.
Mira Grant
#45. You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.
Mark Twain
#46. I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.
Louis Navellier
#47. Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.
Larry Bird
#48. To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.
Kevin Peter Hall
#49. Because when everything else is a distant memory, the people you love are all that's left. And love is the single most important thing we can do in our lives. Give it. Receive it. Teach others how to do it.
J. Sterling
#50. You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
Anna Deavere Smith
#51. A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.
Chris Oyakhilome
#53. I will teach you many things, little star." He has that look on his face that I can't read. His eyes seem even darker than I remember. They're a contrast to the softness of his touch on my cheek and lips.
Alexa Riley
#54. So know this, little one. Whether you are the Messiah, or you become a rabbi, or even if you are nothing more than a farmer, here is the sum of all I can teach you, and all that I know: treat others as you would like to be treated. Can you remember that?
Christopher Moore
#55. Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf
#56. One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one."
"Always?" I ask.
"Always!" she confirms. "Good stories teach!
Camron Wright
#57. I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.
Karisma Kapoor
#58. One can say, 'Teach me what you know,'
but the better request is,
'Teach me about what teaches you.'
Malidoma Patrice Some
#59. I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
Richard Linklater
#60. You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.
Herb Kelleher
#61. Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
Rajneesh
#62. You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
Ellen Goodman
#63. I can't teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.
Hank Moody
#64. If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia
#65. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if it bores you, you can move on.
Sarah Morgan
#66. Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. I'm going to teach you to ride Princess."
"Princess?"
"My motorcycle."
I laugh. "You named your motorcycle Princess?"
"What can I say?" he teases. "I call all my favorite things princess.
Tera Lynn Childs
#68. I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.
J.K. Rowling
#69. You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination
K. Lamb
#70. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.
Richard Rohr
#71. In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wanted it to, you can do wet on wet - you just keep moving the image around.
Laura Owens
#72. One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
William Wordsworth
#73. In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?
Yuriy Tarnawsky
#74. An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
Bruce Lee
#76. I read this book many times and teach how to heal chakra. This book is the best book ever to learn about chakra. This book also explains about what kind of exercise you can do to heal your chakra.
Ilchi Lee
#77. People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
Tracy Kidder
#78. Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.
Jaime Pressly
#79. Pete Newell told me 'get as much information and learn as much about the game as you can, but use your own personality to teach it.'
Mike Krzyzewski
#80. In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me.
Laura Benanti
#81. How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#82. You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
Galileo Galilei
#83. There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.
Gina Carano
#84. Too many years fighting back tears. Why can't the past just die? Wishing you were somehow here again, knowing we must say goodbye. Try to forgive, teach me to live, give me the strength to try! No more memories, no more silent tears, no more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.
Charles Hart
#85. The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.
Micheal Rivers
#86. There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.
Robin Olds
#87. There are limits to self-improvement. Inevitably you hit the point where what you are is, well, what you are, and all the teach-yourself videos and easy-to-use equipment on those creatinous home TV shopping things can no longer ward off you confrontation with your self.
Jessica Zafra
#88. Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.
Muni Natarajan
#89. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.
John O'Donohue
#90. You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.
Monty Roberts
#91. We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.
Jack Nicholson
#92. Keep one thing in your mind; your school & friends can never teach you properly ,how to be a good husband & father.
Srinivas Shenoy
#93. No one can teach you how to write. A writer writes, plain and simple. You improve by doing.
Scott Ciencin
#94. That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.
Louise Hay
#95. Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.
Ravi Zacharias
#96. You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.
Benjamin Franklin
#97. The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything
Lemony Snicket
#98. You really can't teach reading as a science. Love gets mixed up in it.
Dr. Seuss
#99. How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.
Ansel Adams
#100. How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)
John Steinbeck
