Joe Wright was almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

Assume whatever you do, both offline and online, will be seen by your mother, dad, boss, coach, boyfriend, teacher… the world.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.

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

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.

Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.

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