Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

Jan Brett

I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.

Jan Brett

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

Jan Brett

I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.

Jamie Moyer

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Jamie Oliver

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

Jason Alexander

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

Jared Gilman

I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I got my manager. That was about 5th grade. So once that happened it kind of clicked that I probably should pursue acting as a career...

Janet Yellen

In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

Janet Jackson

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

Jane Smiley

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

Richard G. Scott

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

Richard G. Scott

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

Susan B. Anthony

Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

Susan B. Anthony

A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

Brian Weiss

Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.

Brian Eno

When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who encouraged me, but the ones who took very strong positions. Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don't agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it - or chuck it away if they don't want it.

Brian Eno

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

Bret Harte

Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!

Bram Stoker

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Boris Kodjoe

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

Bobby Knight

I would rather be thought of as a teacher than a coach.

Bobby Knight

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

Bob Dylan

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

Billy Connolly

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

Bodhidharma

I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.

Bodhidharma

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Bruce Coville

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Bruce Fein

History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

Bruce Dickinson

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

Brigitte Bardot

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.