Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Bogut

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

Andrew Cohen

There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.

Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.

Andreas Schleicher

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.

Amos Lee

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Amos Bronson Alcott

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

Alvin Martin

Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters

Aly Raisman

If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

Aly Raisman

When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

Anthony Doerr

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

Anthony de Mello

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

Anthony de Mello

A good teacher offers practice , a bad one offers theories .

Anthony de Mello

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories .

Anne Sweeney

I am deeply honored that my team is being recognized by H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo for Disney/ABC's role in creating television that inspires and captivates audiences wherever they live.

Anne Sweeney

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

Amy Hempel

It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.

Amy Chua

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

Alvin Ailey

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Alonzo Mourning

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

Alma Gluck

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

Anne Robinson

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

Anne Rice

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Anne Rice

It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.

Anna Deavere Smith

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

Anna Deavere Smith

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Andrew Shue

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

Andrew Luck

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

Andre Leon Talley

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

Andre Maurois

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.

Andre Maurois

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Ameen Rihani

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.