513 private quotes tagged teacher

“The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.” — Harold Bloom

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“NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.” — Christa McAuliffe

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“I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.” — Stephen Colbert

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“There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.” — Allan Bloom

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“In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.” — Mark Zandi

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“No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.” — Renee Fleming

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“I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.” — Anthony Holden

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“A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.” — Kate Clinton

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“It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.” — Michael Morpurgo

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“You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.” — Tony Dungy

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“I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.” — Jet Li

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“I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.” — Mark Ruffalo

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“We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.” — George Farquhar

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“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.” — Josef Albers

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“I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.” — Liev Schreiber

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“My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.” — Yo Yo Ma

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“I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.” — Yo Yo Ma

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“I was an elementary school teacher.” — Luciano Pavarotti

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“I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.” — Evo Morales

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“A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.” — Bill Bowerman

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“I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.” — John Philip Sousa

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“But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.” — Buddy Rich

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“Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.” — Antonio Tabucchi

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“No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.” — Antonio Tabucchi

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“When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.” — Cecilia Bartoli

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