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teaching keys remember
The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned. Clive James
teaching ucla years
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA. James Franco
teaching taken enemy
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves. Christopher Hitchens
teaching college lectures
I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me. Kathleen Hanna
teaching character thinking
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something. Oswald Chambers
teaching learning people
People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage. Natalie Cole
teaching games play
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play. Nikki Giovanni
teaching acting want
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not. Marian Seldes
teaching government majority-vote
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. Lillian Hellman
humility responsibility guilt
Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility. Tariq Ramadan
humility names empathy
Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.
humility men endless
Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. T. S. Eliot
views goal causes
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings. Baruch Spinoza
views paris honor
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton. Ayelet Waldman
views taste sides
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. Carter Burwell
views land two
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why. Adam Carolla
views years focus
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue. Jeff Raikes
views political zealous
I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous. Jay Roach
views agendas tilt
Kissinger-type foreign policy is clearly, in my view, the proper tilt for us in the future, and he [Donald Trump] gets it. And some of our members, I guess, have been so deeply committed to the [George W.]Bush agenda, the neo-conservative agenda, that it's harder for them to acknowledge that. But I acknowledge it. Jeff Sessions
views immigration events
I had not been involved in any way in planning the event in Mobile. My staff maybe, had really been contacted, but I had never talked to Donald Trump about him coming to Mobile, and I decided - I had something else to do but it became so clear that it was going to be such a big event that I should be there. And he had already adopted my immigration views, in large part, and he was saying things I thought were valuable, about immigration.
views intellectual victory
I liked Donald's Trump speech on foreign policy. What he's showing is that his fundamental views are solid, and that there's an intellectual basis for this, an economic basis for what he's saying, and that can lead him to victory.