Zitat des Tages über Selbst beigebracht / Self-Taught:
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.
I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
Simple genome engineering of bacteria and yeast is just the beginning of the rise of the true biohackers. This is a community of several thousand people, with skill sets ranging from self-taught software hackers to biology postdocs who are impatient with the structure of traditional institutional lab work.
Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.
I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
Many people who excel are self-taught.
My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.
I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.
I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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.
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 mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.
Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.
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.
Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.
I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.
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.
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.
My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.