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. You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.
Lionel Tiger
#4. 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
#5. You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.
Bryant McGill
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
Virginia Woolf
#11. You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
Ellen Goodman
#12. You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination
K. Lamb
#13. 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
#14. It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time.
Robert Marion
#15. The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them.
Esther Hicks
#16. You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.
Milton H. Erickson
#17. You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.
Bill Cosby
#18. The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
Magnus Scheving
#19. You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#20. If there is no one around you that you can teach, it is time to leave to another place where you can teach; if there is no one around you to teach you, it is time to leave to another place where you can be taught!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say "Come back" and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you when you call, just like a friendly pup.
Eknath Easwaran
#22. There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.
Arnold Rothstein
#23. In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're going to be who they're going to be.
Tina Fey
#24. You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.
John Dewey
#25. What are you doing here?" she demands.
"I
I ... "
I want to touch you. I want to curl into bed beside you and see if you can teach me to dream something that wont make me wake up screaming.
Stacey Jay
#26. Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
Carol Burnett
#27. Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
Anna Camp
#28. Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
David Hockney
#29. (Of course there are gay Betas: the Beta Male boyfriend is highly prized in the gay community because you can teach him how to dress yet you can remain relatively certain that he will never develop a fashion sense or be more fabulous than you.)
Christopher Moore
#30. The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.
Stella Adler
#31. If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
Martha Stewart
#32. Your mind is your bitch," he says. "The truth is you can teach it to do anything. You have to program your brain to your commands, not other people's.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#33. I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.
Thomas Lennon
#34. You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.
Henry Mintzberg
#35. Once you learn how to think you can teach yourself anything.
Jeffrey Fry
#36. You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.
Lee Trevino
#37. You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.
Christopher Moore
#38. Nicky Gumbel, the vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton in London and founder of the Alpha Course, tweeted, "You can teach what you know, but you will reproduce what you are.
Brad Lomenick
#39. Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.
Amy Winehouse
#40. You can never fight for peace but you can teach peace and then let your teachings conquer our world!
Timothy Pina
#41. I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.
Bob Newhart
#42. You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.
Marya Hornbacher
#43. Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
Charles Spurgeon
#44. The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.
Jane Cleland
#45. You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
Frederick Delius
#46. No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.
Will Ferrell
#47. You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.
Tip O'Neill
#48. You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan Perlis
#49. If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.
Roger Ailes
#50. You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.
Mary Gaitskill
#51. You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.
Bobby Bowden
#52. I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.
Daryl Morey
#53. You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch ... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.
Freddy Adu
#54. Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.
Juliana Spahr
#55. Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.
Peter Drucker
#56. The greatest trick you can teach an old dog is how to learn new tricks.
J.S. Davey
#57. You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.
T.D. Jakes
#58. You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too. You can teach me like Grandaddy taught you 'n' Uncle Jack." "No
Harper Lee
#59. You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
Lance Armstrong
#60. You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#61. The older we get, the bigger the catalog of failures Satan can throw in our faces. You may think, 'I don't have anything to offer.' But you can teach out of your failures as well as your successes (p. 223).
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#62. I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.
George Cukor
#63. Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.
Homer
#64. If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.
Cynthia Lewis
#67. You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.
Benjamin Percy
#68. Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
Ranulph Fiennes
#69. No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.
Brene Brown
#70. And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#71. You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person.
Guy Doud
#72. You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff.
Jacqueline Bisset
#73. You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
Gloria Naylor
#74. Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
William Masters
#75. Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.
Harvey MacKay
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Giorgos Seferis
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.
Alan Snow
#84. They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.
Lemony Snicket
#85. 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
#86. You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
Kurt Vonnegut
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.
Gregory Colbert
#90. 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
#91. You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Barack Obama
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#99. You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
Marva Collins
#100. 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
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