Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Lehrer

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

Todd Haynes

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

Tommy Shaw

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

Steve Wozniak

I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.

Steve King

Which is superior, the Constitution or Sharia law? In Sharia law by their teachings is superior to everything else, it replaces everything else, it replaces the Constitution itself. So, you can`t be assimilated into the American civilization and accept Sharia law as being superior to our Constitution. It`s antithetical to Americanism.

Stephen Covey

When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Vanna Bonta

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

Utah Phillips

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Taslima Nasrin

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Taryn Manning

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

Stephen King

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

Spider Robinson

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

Summer Sanders

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

Stu Jackson

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

Steven Weinberg

If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

Rick Warren

If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED not taught.

Rick Warren

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

Tracey Gold

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

Vince Lombardi

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

Tariq Ramadan

The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).

T. D. Jakes

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

T. S. Eliot

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

Sydney J. Harris

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

Sydney J. Harris

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Ray Liotta

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

Stephen King

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

Stanley Kubrick

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

William Hung

I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

Warren E. Burger

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

William Bennett

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.