Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

Tyson Chandler

I have great players around me. I have a great coach talking to me all the time, constantly teaching me. I feel reborn, like I'm learning every day. When I show up, I'm happy.

Twyla Tharp

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

Vladimir Putin

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

William Glasser

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

William Godwin

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Godwin

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Ames

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.

Wassily Kandinsky

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

Thomas Becket

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

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.

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.

Roman Jakobson

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

Ron Paul

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Rosa Parks

I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.

Roger Zelazny

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

Susan Orlean

When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.

Susan Cain

In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

Pearl S. Buck

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

Peter Tosh

Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching..

Peter Lee

The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in the world, and how they see it.... To say someone has learnt history is to say something very wide ranging about the way in which he or she is likely to make sense of the world. History offers a way of seeing almost any substantive issue in human affairs, subject to certain procedures and standards, whatever feelings one may have.

Peter Kreeft

Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.

Peter Eisenman

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Peter Senge

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

Peter Senge

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

Peter O'Toole

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

Pete Newell

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

Pierre Trudeau

What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries;it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.

Rabindranath Tagore

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.