Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Raine

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you're the Master, you're the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And, to understand, is to transform what Is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

Jesmyn Ward

I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.

Jess Walter

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

Jesse Eisenberg

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

Jeremy Roenick

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

Jenna Bush

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

Jenna Bush

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

Jenna Bush

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Jenna Elfman

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

Glenn Beck

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Jim Calhoun

Teams do get into ruts. (Other) teams do play defense.

Flip Saunders

Teams are waiting for us to get things turned up. When that happens, that's when we go on our little runs.

Teach only love, for that is what you are.

Jim Brown

See. There's a lot of teaching going on out there. That's where it all begins.

See how the jig flutters. I have to get him teased up enough to take it, put it all the way in his mouth. When you can see that, then you just set the hook.

Paul Harvey

Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.

Paul Haggis

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

Paul Goodman

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

Pau Gasol

I just need to get more aggressive and let my teammates feel all that energy and all that emotion.

Pau Gasol

Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything.

Pau Gasol

If our minds and hearts are into it, we can be a heck of a team. We can beat anybody.

Paul Allen

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

Patrick Kane

I think maybe our team was too young and stupid to even know what was going on.

Pat Bowlen

Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him.

Pat Boone

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Pat Conroy

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Pat Conroy

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave