Famous Quotes & Sayings

Renee Fleming

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

Thornton Wilder

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

Thomas Paine

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

Thomas Paine

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Thomas Paine

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

Thomas Hood

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Thomas Hood

When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

Thomas Huxley

I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

Thomas Huxley

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

Thomas Eakins

A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.

Thomas de Quincey

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Timothy Leary

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

Rupert Brooke

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

Rumi

Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

Rumi

Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious

Rumi

The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.

Rumi

I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.

Rumi

You are the mirror of divine beauty.

Tom Peters

Rewards should go to teams as a whole.

Tom Peters

Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

Tom Peters

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

Tom Peters

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

Tom Peters

Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.

Tom Peters

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

Tom Kristensen

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Tom Lehrer

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

Tom DeMarco

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

Tom DeMarco

What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.

Tom DeMarco

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

Tom DeMarco

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

Tom Felton

If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.

Tom Felton

One of my first things I was fascinated with when I got on set was how does Grant do all this Flash stuff? it looks so good as the end product, but how does the special effects team work? How does the visual effects team work?