Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Ferguson

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

Craig Ferguson

I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no respect for the teachers, their attitude didn't poison the writing that I was discovering for myself.

Craig Ferguson

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

Craig Ferguson

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

Clive Standen

It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.

Clive Woodward

Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

Cobi Jones

I've seen a lot of highs and a lot of lows with this team, and one thing I've learned is that even though you have lows, you're not going to have them forever, so you've got to keep fighting. (on the Los Angeles Galaxy)

Cobi Jones

That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

Coco Chanel

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

Elizabeth Warren

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Elizabeth I

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue

Eli Manning

My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.

Eli Manning

If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.

Eli Broad

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

Eli Broad

Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

Eli Broad

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

Eli Broad

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

Eli Broad

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

B. F. Skinner

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

Ashanti

It's pretty much, having everything on your shoulder versus depending on an entire team.

Ashanti

I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!

Ashleigh Brilliant

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort, and refinement.

Ara Parseghian

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

Arabella Weir

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

Apolo Ohno

When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff.

Ben Silbermann

I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.

Ben Silbermann

I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

Ben Shahn

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.

Ben Stein

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

Ben Stein

I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.

Bear Bryant

You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.