Famous Quotes & Sayings

Champ Bailey

I'm always fighting to make the team anyway. I'm always preparing like I'm one of the bottom guys, trying to make the team.

Chance The Rapper

I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

Charlie Kimball

I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.

Charlie Munger

There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.

Charlie Munger

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

Charlie Munger

I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars. You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking alcohol in the closet and, similarly, you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.

Charlie Munger

I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.

Charles Schumer

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

Charles Schumer

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

Charles Schumer

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Charles Sanders Peirce

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Charles M. Blow

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

Bill Johnson

God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

Beverly Cleary

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Beverly Cleary

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

Beverly Cleary

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Betty White

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

Bernhard Schlink

There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

Bernie Mac

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Edward Hirsch

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

Edward Hirsch

When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose name was Carol Parsinan, a wonderful teacher. And Carol did a really great thing for me. She taught me more than anyone.

Edmond H. Fischer

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

Edith Wharton

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Ed Asner

I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going into journalism?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I wouldn't.' I said, 'Well, why not?' He said, 'You can't make a living.'

Ed Belfour

I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.

Ed Belfour

I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

Ed Belfour

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

Ed Belfour

Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

Dawn Staley

We were rattled. A team like Rutgers, they play in spurts, and they didn't have a large spurt. We certainly knew we had it in us to get back in the game if we stayed focused.

David Robinson

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

David Icke

Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that "when are the children going to have time to play?" Well, they're not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don't understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.