Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Raleigh

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

Will Smith

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

Warren E. Burger

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

Warren Beatty

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Warren Buffett

I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate’s distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.

Warren Buffett

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Warren Buffett

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Warren Buffett

The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.

Warren Buffett

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Vladimir Lenin

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Will McDonough

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

Wayne Dyer

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

Walter Annenberg

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

Walter Bagehot

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Virginia Woolf

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

William Bennett

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William Blake

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

William Blake

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

Wendy Whelan

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

Wendy Williams

Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to under an hour. I've been blessed to have great producers and a great staff to achieve that. I have a small team but they're very efficient.

Wentworth Miller

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

Werner Erhard

What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.

Wayne Rooney

I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do. (on signing for Manchester united)

Wallace Stegner

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

Wallace Stegner

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

Wallace Stegner

Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.

Wallace Stegner

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Samuel Smiles

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Samuel Smiles

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Samuel Richardson

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Samuel Dash

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Samuel Butler

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.