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Bravery cannot be taught..
It needs to be tried, practised and tested..
In Self! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught. — Ernie Isley

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem. — Fran Lebowitz

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. — Adam Jones

His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught. — Paul Theroux

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

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

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. — Henny Youngman

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

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen. — Neil Oliver

I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision. — Aiden Shaw

The value of work? Have I taught them self-reliance? Have I taught them to take care of each — Douglas Preston

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition. — Richard Meale

I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher. — Akiane Kramarik

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school. — Agnes Denes

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

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work. — Billy Cannon

Self-confidence is not taught or learned; it is earned by surpassing your own self-limitations. — John Raynolds

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

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ. — Lois Duncan

[...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me well indeed. — Liz Thebart

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice . — Diogenes

Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter. — Hugh Nibley

We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us — Sukant Ratnakar

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

If we are not explicitly and regularly taught out of it, we will always turn the message of God's rescue operation into a message of self-help. — Michael S. Horton

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas. — Richelle Mead

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught. — Erno Paasilinna

You were taught that love is supposed to be patient and kind, and not something that challenges you and changes you and makes you who you are. — Brianna Wiest

Evolve and see what comes with you anything that doesn't has taught you all you need to know. — Nikki Rowe

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. — Mahatma Gandhi

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control. — Gina Carano

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

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

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, painted here by his friend Jan Vermeer, was a self-taught instrument maker. — Bill Bryson

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

But it also taught me that it is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment, the fear we internalize. — Ken Robinson

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

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much,
The self-sufficing power of solitude. — William Wordsworth

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. — Susan B. Anthony

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

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

Many people who excel are self-taught. — Herb Ritts

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

I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer. — Baba Kalyani

I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically. — Yigal Azrouel

The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught — Stephen King

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools! — Tom Six

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

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. — Malcolm X

Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves. — Carl Zimmer

What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them. — Ted Leeson

Those accustomed to failure fear the novelty of success. Those taught the lessons of subordination are oft timid in the school of self-service. — M T Anderson

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

Only a self-taught man can teach others — Girish Kohli

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery. — Frederick Lenz

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

Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt.
"Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired.
"Very good answer. — Kurt Vonnegut

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught. — Judah Friedlander

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught - prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. — Donald Barthelme

The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others. — Mark Twight

A person who refuses to manage himself and discipline his flesh will be disciplined and taught by life itself. — Sunday Adelaja

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano. — Brian Wilson

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence. — Anna Torv

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

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
Polly B. Berends — Polly Berrien Berends

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. — David K. Shipler

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed. — John Constable

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. — Immanuel Kant

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. — Maximillian Degenerez

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical. — Peter Ackroyd

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

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small. — Myles Munroe

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught. — Yves Chauvin

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

Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control. — Vladimir Nabokov

The sand whispered, Be separate, the stones taught me, Be hard. — Stanley Kunitz

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard. — Linda Lael Miller

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