Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henrik Zetterberg

When I was first drafted, I was just happy that any team wanted to take me, but it was the Red Wings, and that made it better.

Henry B. Eyring

One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

Henry Adams

Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.

Henry Adams

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

Henry Adams

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Henry Adams

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

Henry Adams

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Henry Adams

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

Henry Adams

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Henry Adams

At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.

Henry A. Kissinger

Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. That's why my family left Germany in 1938.

Helen Hayes

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The one Spirit of life is given different names, the sacred names. We more easily recognize the Spirit of life by the particular name to which we are accustomed. So far we are right, but the mistake we make, and it is to our loss, is to ignore or deny the same truth because it is given to us in another form and under another name. We limit it. We say the truth existed only in that period when certain teachers came to the world, and that after that it stopped.

Henry Giroux

Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test...

Henry Blodget

It's all about who your team is and who your people are.

Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves.)

Heber J. Grant

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

Heber J. Grant

I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President of the Church. I read this chapter about once a week for quite a while, then once a month for several months. I thought I needed it in my business, so to speak; that it was one of the things that were necessary for my advancement.

Hedy Lamarr

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Heather Mitts

Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.

Heather Mills

I was competing in an IPC World Cup race, but the finish area was short and I came across the line with my head down and went straight through the fence. It was only because the Italian team doctor leapt out to grab me that I didn't smash through the café window.

Henry David Thoreau

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry Ford

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

Henry Ford

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

Manmohan Singh

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

Mandy Patinkin

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

Malcolm X

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

Malcolm X

We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go

Malcolm X

When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.