Top teacher Quotes Collection - Page 10

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Image of Ezra Taft Benson
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Collection: Teacher
Image of Melissa Rauch
I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.
- Melissa Rauch
Collection: Teacher
Image of Eddie Van Halen
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
- Eddie Van Halen
Collection: Teacher
Image of Richard Dreyfuss
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.
- Richard Dreyfuss
Collection: Teacher
Image of Calvin Trillin
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
- Calvin Trillin
Collection: Teacher
Image of Maximillian Degenerez
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
- Maximillian Degenerez
Collection: Teacher
Image of Alanna Ubach
Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
- Alanna Ubach
Collection: Teacher
Image of Mark Knopfler
There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.
- Mark Knopfler
Collection: Teacher
Image of Betsy Brandt
In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
- Betsy Brandt
Collection: Teacher
Image of Laverne Cox
My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
- Laverne Cox
Collection: Teacher
Image of Carla Bley
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
- Carla Bley
Collection: Teacher
Image of Taika Waititi
My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts.
- Taika Waititi
Collection: Teacher
Image of Suze Orman
Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
- Suze Orman
Collection: Teacher
Image of John Taylor Gatto
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
- John Taylor Gatto
Collection: Teacher
Image of Richard Dreyfuss
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
- Richard Dreyfuss
Collection: Teacher
Image of Laurieann Gibson
If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.
- Laurieann Gibson
Collection: Teacher
Image of Saul Williams
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
- Saul Williams
Collection: Teacher
Image of Gore Vidal
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Teacher
Image of Colson Whitehead
For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.
- Colson Whitehead
Collection: Teacher
Image of Ed O'Neill
That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
- Ed O'Neill
Collection: Teacher
Image of Peter Bichsel
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
- Peter Bichsel
Collection: Teacher
Image of Mikheil Saakashvili
I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.
- Mikheil Saakashvili
Collection: Teacher
Image of Chinua Achebe
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
- Chinua Achebe
Collection: Teacher
Image of Darrell Royal
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Teacher
Image of Cara Buono
I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
- Cara Buono
Collection: Teacher
Image of Carlos Pena, Jr.
I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
- Carlos Pena, Jr.
Collection: Teacher
Image of Duff McKagan
Going to talk to my little girl's teacher is a far cry from what people probably think I spend my time doing.
- Duff McKagan
Collection: Teacher
Image of Adora Svitak
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
- Adora Svitak
Collection: Teacher
Image of Jonathan Ames
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.
- Jonathan Ames
Collection: Teacher
Image of David Blaine
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
- David Blaine
Collection: Teacher
Image of Juliette Binoche
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.
- Juliette Binoche
Collection: Teacher
Image of Gina Haspel
Experience is a good teacher.
- Gina Haspel
Collection: Teacher
Image of Neale Donald Walsch
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Collection: Teacher
Image of Art Garfunkel
It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher. I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions, and they would say, 'What were the Beatles like?'
- Art Garfunkel
Collection: Teacher
Image of George Steiner
I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.
- George Steiner
Collection: Teacher
Image of Alanna Ubach
You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.
- Alanna Ubach
Collection: Teacher
Image of Fabolous
Sometimes in life, your best teacher is experience and going through something to figure it out.
- Fabolous
Collection: Teacher
Image of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Collection: Teacher
Image of Shimon Peres
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
- Shimon Peres
Collection: Teacher
Image of Ezra Taft Benson
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Collection: Teacher
Image of Nina Simone
I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.
- Nina Simone
Collection: Teacher
Image of Ed O'Neill
I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.
- Ed O'Neill
Collection: Teacher
Image of Annie Leibovitz
I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.
- Annie Leibovitz
Collection: Teacher
Image of Frederick Reines
I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
- Frederick Reines
Collection: Teacher
Image of Phil McGraw
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
- Phil McGraw
Collection: Teacher
Image of Neil Gorsuch
In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.
- Neil Gorsuch
Collection: Teacher
Image of Amartya Sen
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
- Amartya Sen
Collection: Teacher
Image of Michael Gove
The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
- Michael Gove
Collection: Teacher
Image of Rush Limbaugh
I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Teacher