Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tennessee Williams

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Terence McKenna

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.

Terence McKenna

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence is the new forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

Shunryu Suzuki

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

Shunryu Suzuki

Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.

Shunryu Suzuki

When something dies is the greatest teaching.

Shunryu Suzuki

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

Shunryu Suzuki

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

Shelley Berman

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Shelley Berman

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

Shannon Miller

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

Seymour Papert

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

Seymour Papert

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

Li Hongzhi

We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.

Li Hongzhi

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

Lewis Thomas

It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.

Leonard Orr

I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.

Laura Schlessinger

...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.

Kurt Lewin

Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.

Neil LaBute

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

Marco Rubio

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

Samuel Johnson

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

Sam Abell

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

Sam Abell

I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended, to me, were those who had taught. Teaching enriches and enlivens one's work.

Robert Jordan

Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

Walt Disney

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

Todd Barry

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

Tobias Wolff

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity - its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.