Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Gunn

If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.

Robert A. Heinlein

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Robert A. Heinlein

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

Robert A. Heinlein

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.

Steven Wright

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

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.

Victor Hugo

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

Vernon Cooper

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Robert Frost

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

Robert Fulghum

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Robert Frost

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

Robert Frost

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Richard Madden

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.

Richard Ernst

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

Richard Dreyfuss

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

Renee Fleming

You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice and body and technique for a sound that is consistent and solid.

Thomas Huxley

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

Timothy Leary

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

Rumi

Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

Tom Peters

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

Tom Peters

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

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.