Top 100 You Can't Teach Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. 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
#6. When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
Norman MacCaig
#7. 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
#8. 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. You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
Ellen Goodman
#11. You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination
K. Lamb
#12. People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
Tracy Kidder
#13. Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.
Jaime Pressly
#14. 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
#15. But you can never do anything like that again. You can't teach me love and then die on me. That is unacceptable!
Sam Argent
#16. You can't teach at our school if you don't live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.
Sherman Alexie
#17. You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.
Denis Leary
#18. There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.
Jodi Picoult
#19. You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!
Cecil Beaton
#20. The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#21. Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.
Henry Iba
#23. Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
David Hockney
#24. You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.
Bruno Bettelheim
#25. Hey, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Now, you can give an old dog new toys! And, hey, we've got one here.
Si Robertson
#26. Some people are just born wack, you can't teach certain wackness.
The Weeknd
#27. In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches.
Moshe Feiglin
#28. You can't teach charisma. You can draw it out of people if it's there and they haven't quite figured out how to utilize it yet, but it's just one of those things, that's why they call it the "X factor".
Stephanie McMahon
#29. Hiccup followed him carefully ... and fell over again.
"BRAVO!" clapped Alvin, to Hiccup's surprise.
"But I fell over again" said Hiccup.
"But with such STYLE," said Alvin. "You can't teach that, it's in the blood.
Cressida Cowell
#30. You can't teach someone to be imaginative.
Tony Gilroy
#31. You can't teach the bird to fly, you can only whisper your encouragement beneath the wings of it's knowing...
Moriarty
Dean Moriarty
#32. People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
Lucille Ball
#33. As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.
LeBron James
#34. You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.
Lee Trevino
#35. 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
#39. You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
Jesse Jackson
#40. You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic,
Moshe Feiglin
#42. You can't teach kindness with a whip, Janus.
Chris Lester
#43. You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
James Brown
#44. 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
#45. Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.
John Wooden
#46. You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
Galileo Galilei
#47. It meant she considered relevancy before volunteering information. You can't teach people how to do that.
Penny Reid
#48. You can't teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.
Duane Michals
#49. 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
#50. It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them.
Curtis Strange
#51. I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
Toni Morrison
#52. Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can't teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying paintings.
Gregory Cochran
#53. You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.
Roger Ailes
#54. You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.
John Rachel
#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
#57. You can't teach an old hater new truths.
Dane Cook
#58. You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.
Frederick Lenz
#59. You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
Lance Armstrong
#60. I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
Robert Morgan
#61. You have probably heard the saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Actually, there is another saying that is probably more accurate, but is not quite as well known: 'The quickest way to become an old dog is to quit learning new tricks.
Kenneth L. Higbee
#62. You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?
Frank McCourt
#63. You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac
#64. You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.
Roman Vishniac
#65. You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.
James MacDonald
#66. Messi is a natural born talent, that is not to say he doesn't work hard, but you can't teach what he can do.
Deco
#67. But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?
Anne Lamott
#68. That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman
#69. I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything.
Gucci Mane
#70. 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
#71. Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
Ranulph Fiennes
#72. You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.
Tony Bennett
#73. 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
#74. You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.
Seymour Papert
#75. None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#76. You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.
Gloria Naylor
#77. You can't teach a dog not to bark, for 'tis God's will that they do,
Elizabeth Hoyt
#78. We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality
Sunday Adelaja
#79. We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.
Harold S. Kushner
#80. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.
Paul Neilan
#82. You rich kids are all the same. Daddy may give you everything you want but the world won't, and it's my job to teach you that.
Evelyn Smith
#83. I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients.
Lauren Worsham
#84. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna Ball
#85. Teach that asshole some manners."
I winked at her and smiled. "Anything for you, baby.
Jamie McGuire
#86. If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know.
Richard Diaz
#87. The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#88. Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.
Brian D. McLaren
#89. I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Francois Fenelon
#90. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#91. If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.
Sunil Mittal
#92. What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
T.F. Hodge
#93. And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.
Paul Fussell
#94. You can teach a bubbly person to repair shoes, but you can't put the personality into a grumpy cobbler.
John Timpson
David Shindler
#95. Would you like me to teach you how to trust God? Start with your money.
Johnny Hunt
#96. I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.
Justin Cronin
#97. As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#98. You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
Pope Leo XIII
#99. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#100. To find universal peace, teach yourself and everyone else to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
