Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Hans Zimmer

The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across the knuckles, and so whenever you put a piece of music in front of me, there's a Pavlovian reaction where it starts off.

Harlan Coben

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

Guus Hiddink

You can't have three defenders moving up and one going back. The decisions a team makes are important. As a whole.

Guus Hiddink

I am responsible for the team and a journalist should be responsible for his article.

Grant Teaff

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

Greg Brown

Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

Greg Behrendt

Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.

Gordon Taylor

Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.

Gordon Strachan

I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

Gordon Strachan

He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too, and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he's still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I'm not to be trusted.....

Gordon Ramsay

I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured and ended up turning to cooking. It was an accident but the happiest one of my life.

Gordon Ramsay

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

Gordon Ramsay

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

John Dryden

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

John Mahoney

I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

John Maeda

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

John Madden

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

John Madden

Usually, the team that turns the ball over less will hold on to the ball more

John Madden

at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.

John Madden

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

John Lyly

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

John Lubbock

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

John Locke

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

John Locke

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

John Locke

Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.

John Locke

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

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.