Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas J. Watson

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

Vin Diesel

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

Vin Diesel

I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I've never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.

Vijay Singh

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Vidal Sassoon

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

Viggo Mortensen

I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.

Viggo Mortensen

When people say that entertainers should "know your place," they might as well say the same thing about plumbers and teachers and cab drivers. We all should be able to express our views.

Victor LaValle

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

Victor Hugo

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

Victor Hugo

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

Victor Hugo

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

Vernon Cooper

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Veronica Roth

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

Richard Bach

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

Richard Bach

We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.

Robert Frost

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

Robert Fulghum

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Robert Frost

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

Robert Frost

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

Robert Frost

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

Robert Frost

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

Robert Frost

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Rita Dove

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Richard Madden

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.

Richard Matheson

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

Richard Ernst

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

Richard Dreyfuss

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

Richard Dreyfuss

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.

Richard Dreyfuss

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

Renee Olstead

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

Renee Fleming

You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice and body and technique for a sound that is consistent and solid.

Renee Fleming

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.