Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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 James

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

William James

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

Will Ferrell

I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

Will Durant

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

Sarah Palin

I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

Sara Zarr

and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

Richard Gilman

I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Wallace Stegner

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Zaha Hadid

When I taught, all my best students were women.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Jurgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

Paulo Coelho

Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.

Ted Lange

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

Thomas Aquinas

Theology is taught by God, teaches God, and leads to God.

Julie Garwood

Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.

Sathya Baba

The teachers of tomorrow are the students of today.

MaryEllen Elia

We have a way to go with our 12th-grade students.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Terence Lewis

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Louis Garrel

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

John Boyles

I have a vision for the way students can be represented.

Richard Skaggs

Some of the students were still out of control.