Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Alito

My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.

Samuel Alito

Many people have been positive influences in my life. My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my teachers were also a big help to me.

Samuel Alito

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

Sammy Hagar

Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.

Tariq Ramadan

The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).

Tariq Ramadan

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

T. Boone Pickens

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

T. D. Jakes

Any great teacher is a great student.

T. D. Jakes

You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.

T. D. Jakes

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

T. S. Eliot

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Sydney Pollack

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

Sydney J. Harris

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

Sydney J. Harris

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Sydney J. Harris

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

Sydney J. Harris

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Suzanne Yoculan

All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)

Suze Orman

A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.

Suze Orman

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

Taylor Dane

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

Ruben Studdard

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

Ronaldinho

I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

Ron Brown

Great teams work harder after a tough loss.

Ron Conway

You have learn to hire a management team, you have to learn how to manage You have to want success so badly that you learn how to manage.

Ron Conway

As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company?

Ron Atkinson

Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

Roger Enrico

As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one.

Tyler Oakley

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

Troy Vincent

We did it together. Not one individual carried this team.

Troy Polamalu

We're a road team. We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We have fans everywhere.

Troy Polamalu

I always try to sacrifice my body for the team.