Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Andrews

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

Andy Andrews

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

Andrea Bocelli

If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

Andrea Bocelli

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Amanda Beard

I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.

A. A. Milne

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Jane Austen

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

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 Jackson

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Bono

When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Barbara Cook

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Barbara Coloroso

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.