Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Locke

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

John Lewis

Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.

John Lewis

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

John Legend

Experience is a great teacher.

John Leguizamo

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

John Leguizamo

Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive?" My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.

John Leguizamo

I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."

John Leguizamo

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

John Lennon

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

John Lennon

I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

John Lancaster Spalding

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

John Lancaster Spalding

If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

John Lancaster Spalding

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

John Kuhn

The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nation–not the advertised one–and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, there’s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just don’t care enough

John Lackey

Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.

John Knowles

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

John Barth

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

Jimmy Choo

After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I feel really good in the teacher role.

Jim Leyland

I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

Jim Leyland

We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

Jim Palmer

You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind you.

Jim Otto

If the entire team can feel the same way about these things, you can consistently remain a winner.

Jim Rohn

Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.

Jim Rohn

I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me.’

George Lucas

As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.

George Lucas

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

George Lucas

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

George Lucas

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

George Lucas

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

George MacDonald

The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence.

George MacDonald

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

George Karl

Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.