Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugen Herrigel

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

Eugen Herrigel

Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."

Ethel Merman

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

Eudora Welty

I was always my own teacher.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

Erykah Badu

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

Erykah Badu

I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

Erykah Badu

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Ernest Holmes

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Ernest Holmes

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

Erma Bombeck

Phrases and their actual meanings: My teacher has never liked me. Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.

Erma Bombeck

There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.

Florynce Kennedy

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

Florynce Kennedy

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Florynce Kennedy

Don't agonise, organise.

Florence King

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.

Flavio Briatore

The GP2 championship costs 0.65 percent of what the Formula One championship costs. I don't understand why GP2 cost $2.5 million and our team and other teams cost maybe between $300 and $500 million. I do not see what the difference is.

Flannery O'Connor

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

Flannery O'Connor

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.

Flannery O'Connor

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Flannery O'Connor

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

Fernando Torres

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Henry Louis Gates

Instill respect for teachers.

Henry Miller

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.

Henny Youngman

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

Henny Youngman

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Helen Keller

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

Helen Keller

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Helen Keller

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

Helen Keller

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Helen Keller

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.