Quotes with self-taught

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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Sam Walton Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Barry Eisler Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Pat Buchanan Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • B. W. Powe Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Patience means self-suffering.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Robert Redford People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Thomas Szasz People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Lee Iacocca People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • James Baldwin People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • W. M. Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bell Hooks People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • John Updike Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, no epoch was more naturally mad.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Winston Churchill Personally i'm always ready to learn, although i do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Winston Churchill Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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