Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Weil

The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

Simon Sinek

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.

Simon Sinek

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Simon Sinek

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

Simon Sinek

A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.

Simon Sinek

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Simon Rich

I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had to offer. But these books sucked. They were so boring and sloppy and plotless. And Bob Dylan's lyrics seemed nonsensical to me - almost like he had just gotten high and written down whatever random thoughts occurred to him.

Simon Rich

I'm too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I'd be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan "a genius." My science teacher told me that television was "the new opiate of the masses" and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.

Simon McBurney

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

Simon Newcomb

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

Simon Newcomb

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Simon Mainwaring

Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

Simon Mainwaring

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

Simon Helberg

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

Simon Cowell

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

Rick Riordan

You know how teachers tell you the magic word is 'please'? That's not true. The magic word is 'puke'. It will get you out of class faster than anything else.

Rick Riordan

I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher

Rick Riordan

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

Rick Riordan

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

Rick Riordan

My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

Rick Riordan

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

Richard Brautigan

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

Richard Brautigan

My teachers could have easily ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

Richard Branson

From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.

Richard Branson

I just love every minute of my life. I love the variety. Every minute of every day I'm meeting fascinating new people, learning and working with wonderful teams of people creating wonderful things.

Rem Koolhaas

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

Richard Branson

Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!

Richard Branson

Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

Richard Branson

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

Richard Branson

Look for the best in people to build a fantastic team

Richard Branson

I learnt from an early age the need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

Richard Branson

I drink about 30 cups of tea a day. I'm a complete tea addict.

Richard Branson

Two heads are definitely better than one and by brainstorming as a team and sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.