Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Blake

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Marjorie Brody

I think when the student's ready, the teacher appears.

Rita Ora

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

Anton LaVey

A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

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.

Richard P. Feynman

Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naive ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

Richard P. Feynman

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

Richard P. Feynman

I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

Richard Pousette-Dart

To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.

Richard P. Feynman

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

Richard K. Morgan

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

Richard Dawkins

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Richard Baxter

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Rex Hunt

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

Russell Lynes

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.

James Head

It been very light. I don't know if everyone is waiting, thinking there is a rush.

Dean Jones

He's just got to get back to thinking he's at the MCG of old, wearing a Victorian cap, and no-one's at the ground, and just play.

Michael Assael

His thinking was a little off and too complicated.

Luke Ridnour

I thought about him, but I was thinking more about the 2-for-1.

Alex Jones

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

Sharon Stone

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Kurt Ritchie

I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.

David Trone

When they say more than half, we're thinking most.

Anais Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.