Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Porter

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Jon Porter

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

Jon Hamm

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Jon Foreman

Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

Jon Anderson

I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun

Joko Beck

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

Joko Beck

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.

Johnny Cash

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

Luc Ferrari

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

Luc de Clapiers

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

Luc de Clapiers

If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.

Louis Menand

When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this was in California. And he, I started reading him around that time, and then I went to Columbia as well, Trilling was still teaching there, I took a course with him. He was not a great teacher, but he was, when I was younger, he was a good model for the kind of criticism I wanted to do, because he thought very dialectically.

Louis Sachar

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

Loni Anderson

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Lord Chesterfield

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Lord Acton

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

John Cleese

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

John Cleese

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

John Brunner

To go faster you must slow down.

John Bradshaw

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

John Barnes

I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

John Barnes

... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you did—and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?

M. Russell Ballard

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

M. Russell Ballard

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

M. Russell Ballard

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

Luther Burbank

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

Luther Burbank

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

John Archibald Wheeler

One can only learn by teaching.

You can't teach that. They have to do that on their own.