Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Maxwell

If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.

Mahatma Gandhi

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

Mahatma Gandhi

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

James Patterson

What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

James McBride

I could have been, and may one day well be a high school English teacher, because I've been given so much I just feel like I have to give something back. The fact that some people consider my work to be good or strong, it's nice, but I know in my heart that if it's not coming - oftentimes it's probably not coming from the best place.

James MacGregor Burns

"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment.

James Madison

If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

James Levine

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

James Levine

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment

James M. Barrie

Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

Joe Pantoliano

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

Joe Paterno

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

Joe Paterno

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Joe Nichols

Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers.

Joe Rogan

Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

John Friend

There are 4 types of relationships. We generally know people who guide and help us like a parent or teacher; those who need our wisdom or help like a child or student; people with similar knowledge and experience on our life path who want to offer unconditional support; and those who do not wish to support us.

John Fahey

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

John Engler

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

John Engler

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

John F. Kerry

I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous.

John Doerr

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John Doerr

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

John Doerr

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

John Donne

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

John Osborne

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

John Ortberg

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

John McGraw

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

John McGraw

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

John McGraw

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

John Dewey

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

John Dewey

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

John Dewey

I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.