Famous Quotes & Sayings

Corey Koskie

This is a good group of young guys that's eager to play. When I was coming up with the (Minnesota) Twins, they called us a Triple-A team. But then we made the playoffs. That's the direction we're headed.

Coretta Scott King

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Confucius

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

Confucius

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

Confucius

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

Confucius

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Confucius

In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

Confucius

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

Confucius

Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

Confucius

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

Confucius

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Confucius

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Confucius

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

Confucius

If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.

Confucius

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Confucius

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

Confucius

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Confucius

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Daniel Tosh

I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.

Dana Spiotta

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.

Dana Spiotta

I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

Dane Cook

You can't teach an old hater new truths.

Damian Kulash

I will say that the lead cosmonaut trainer - I mean, we were working with professional cosmonaut trainers outside of Moscow. And the lead one, at the end of the project, announced to the entire group that he wanted Trish [Sie] to be on his team forevermore.

Daley Thompson

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

Dallas Willard

Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.

Dallas Willard

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Curtis White

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

Courtney B. Vance

You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.

David Cassidy

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

David Cameron

We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.

Darren McCarty

When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.

Darren McCarty

It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.