513 private quotes tagged teacher

“Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.” — Bodhidharma

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“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.” — A. N. Wilson

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“Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.” — Justin Townes Earle

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“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.” — William Hazlitt

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“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.” — Henry Adams

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“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.” — Simone Weil

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“For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.” — Heidi Klum

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“I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.” — Henny Youngman

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“Suffering is one of life's great teachers.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.” — Gerald Jampolsky

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“When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.” — Sylvester Stallone

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“My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.” — Thom Gunn

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“The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.” — Bruce Barton

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“I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.” — Ann Bancroft

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“TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.” — Fred W. Friendly

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“The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.” — Mike Krzyzewski

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“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.” — Edward Gibbon

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“Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.” — Loretta Young

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“That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.” — Maria Callas

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“Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.” — Huston Smith

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“I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.” — Michael Symon

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