Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richelle Mead

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Sanderson

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

William Matthews

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

William Wordsworth

Let Nature be your teacher

William Saroyan

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

William Nicholson

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

William James

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

Henry Silverman

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Ken Bacon

It's something that's on their mind every minute of the day when they're on duty and frequently when they're off duty as well.

John Selden

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice asonerous a duty

Mark Twain

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

Joseph Cook

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Louisa May Alcott

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Shareese DeLeaver

The legislature has failed in its duty to mitigate the rate increase. Obviously the governor is disappointed; the greatest disappointment today was for the Maryland consumer.

Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a meance to society.

Gary Turner

I thought, we need to educate people and teach them how to fish. It just seemed natural.

Dan Levin

I personally am hoping to educate people about housing up here and how Long Gulch Ranch fits into the housing priorities here.

Shonda Schilling

I have two goals -- help me spread the word and help me educate others.

Richard Askey

The first thing we need to do is educate our prospective teachers much better.

Jose Marti

To Educate is to Free.

Jerry Berman

The goal is to educate policy makers about the Internet as a technology, ... We need to explain to policy makers what these issues are.

Eugene Parker

Once they make that decision, you can't really look back. I lay out their options and educate them on the risks. We just want to make sure that they make an informed decision, not an emotional one.

Peter Judge

It's really important to educate yourself and your family. It behooves you to read and understand that calendar.