Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Charles Kettering

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kingsley

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

Jamie Oliver

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

bell hooks

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

bell hooks

The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Michael Leunig

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Bob Gibbons

Arthur is a McDonald's All-America kid who had some contact with Indiana before. It's possible he could reopen that door, but it might be too late.

Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here,

Paul Klee

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

John Mashburn

Primarily we hope to increase their enjoyment of art and music. Music is essential to quality of life and we hope to make these students lifelong consumers of music.

Jonathan Miller

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

David Christian

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

David Antin

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Alfred Brendel

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.