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I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.
One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.
I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
When you’re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.
I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.
I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.
People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.
You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.
Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.
The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.
After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."
The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.
I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.
The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.
Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.
There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.
But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
It’s not the job of the teacher to save a child’s soul; it is the teacher’s job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.