Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves.)

Heber J. Grant

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

Heber J. Grant

I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President of the Church. I read this chapter about once a week for quite a while, then once a month for several months. I thought I needed it in my business, so to speak; that it was one of the things that were necessary for my advancement.

Hedy Lamarr

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Heather Mitts

Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.

Heather Mills

I was competing in an IPC World Cup race, but the finish area was short and I came across the line with my head down and went straight through the fence. It was only because the Italian team doctor leapt out to grab me that I didn't smash through the café window.

Henry David Thoreau

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry Ford

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

Mary Steenburgen

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

Mary Wesley

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Mary Ellen Chase

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

Patricia Briggs

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

Pat Riley

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

Pat Riley

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

Pat Riley

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Pat Riley

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Pat Riley

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

Pat Riley

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

Pat Riley

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Pat Riley

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Pat Riley

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Pat Riley

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

Plautus

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plato

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

Plato

[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found....

Plato

I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

Plato

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

Plato

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

Plato

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Philip Wylie

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Philipp Lahm

They're fighting for the championship, that's not a coincidence: I believe they have developed as a team. They've become much stronger, the squad is more balanced. And they still play the way Arsenal always play. They want to have the ball, they like playing it short, and they have outstanding individuals.