Top 1200 Self-Taught Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

My playing is all about feel. I'm completely self taught: I never took any lessons or anything.

I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar my father gave me.

I've always had heart to get in there and fight. I was taught everything I knew. I was taught how to jab, why to do this, and why not to do that. I was taught that.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to whistle. Of course, he didn't learn, but I taught.'

Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Where have we come as a country, when loving the Constitution, being a patriot, loving Jesus is extremist? Let me tell you what I think is extreme, is a president who was raised by communists, taught by communists, who was supported by communists, and whose self-appointed, self-admitted heroes are communists. And that, I think, is un-American.

In my other work as a self-defense instructor, I have taught the importance of listening to one's gut instincts.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.

My father has been a motivation in my life, he always taught me to be a self-made man because he also started with nothing.

First comes Self-confi­dence, that is the foundation. Then comes Self-satis­faction, it is like the wall. Next comes self-sacrifice, it is like the roof. Finally the house is complete and the Indweller is installed inside; that is Self-realiza­tion. It starts with Self-confidence and it ends with realizing the Self.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

I'm self-taught, and fake eyelashes definitely took the longest to master. I glued my eyes shut at least 15 times.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

Prison was a blessing. Going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. It showed me that I wasn't infallible. It showed me that I was just human. It showed me that I can be back with my ghetto brothers I grew up with and have a good time. It taught me to cool out. It taught me patience. It taught me that I didn't ever want to lose my freedom. It taught me that drugs bring on the devil. It taught me to grow up.

I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

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.