Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Gaffigan

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.

Jesse Jackson

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

Jesse Jackson

You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

Jennifer Lopez

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Jeffrey Rosen

Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.

Jeff Foxworthy

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

Jeff Foxworthy

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

Jean Houston

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Jean Houston

It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

James Carville

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

James C. Collins

Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

James A. Michener

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

James A. Garfield

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Jacqueline Bisset

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

Jackie Tabick

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.

Gaston Bachelard

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

Gary Zukav

Multi-sensory perception is also the ability to see meaning in everyday experiences...You have non-physical guides and teachers. You access them through your intuition. You hear them 'so to speak' through your insights, inspirations, and clarity. Non-physical teachers cannot control you. You must always decide for yourself how you will use your energy, what you will create. They will assist you to see your choices and the consequences of each. They will guide you to the full scope and depth of your power. How you use your power is up to you.

Gary Zukav

Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.

Gary Zukav

The number of teachers and guides that a soul has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish and its level of awareness. Souls that take upon themselves projects of more magnitude bring to themselves more assistance.

Gary Zukav

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.

Gary Zukav

When you ask the Universe to bless you in your effort to align yourself with your soul, you open a passageway between yourself and your guides and Teachers. That is what a blessing is: the opening of a passageway between you and nonphysical guidance.

Fritz Zwicky

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.

Fulton J. Sheen

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

Frederic Bastiat

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire-learned from the teachings of antiquity-that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

Frederic Chopin

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

Christopher Durang

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Christine McVie

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

Christina Baldwin

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Christina Hoff Sommers

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Christian Louboutin

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school,

Chris Hadfield

Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.