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teaching men self
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect. Russell Lynes
teaching writing care
I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow. William Zinsser
teaching rights civilization
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. William Jennings Bryan
teaching learning association
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. William James
teaching praise wit
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. Roger Ascham
teaching college usc
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency. Robert Scheer
teaching inquiry discussion
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist. Robert M. Hutchins
teaching average giving
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry. Salvador Dali
teaching school thinking
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching. Salman Rushdie
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing paint draws
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
wife eating-alone dull
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone. William Wycherley
wife pounds fats
My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round. Rodney Dangerfield
wife devil purpose
So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God. Warren Jeffs
wife buried my-wife
Buried my wife the other day. Had to, she died. W. C. Fields
wife half capable
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. William Penn
wife people might
What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first. Jorge Posada
wife getting-older care
You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along. Jacob Braude
wife use energy
Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz] Malcolm X
wife pimp stills
Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp. Johnny Carson