Top teacher Quotes Collection - Page 8

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Image of Roddy Doyle
When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'
- Roddy Doyle
Collection: Teacher
Image of John Krasinski
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.
- John Krasinski
Collection: Teacher
Image of Cat Cora
My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
- Cat Cora
Collection: Teacher
Image of Jeffrey Donovan
Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.
- Jeffrey Donovan
Collection: Teacher
Image of John Leguizamo
I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
- John Leguizamo
Collection: Teacher
Image of Temple Grandin
I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.
- Temple Grandin
Collection: Teacher
Image of Ann Curry
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
- Ann Curry
Collection: Teacher
Image of Jamie Moyer
If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
- Jamie Moyer
Collection: Teacher
Image of Archie Panjabi
My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'
- Archie Panjabi
Collection: Teacher
Image of Gus Van Sant
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
- Gus Van Sant
Collection: Teacher
Image of Tom Vilsack
There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.
- Tom Vilsack
Collection: Teacher
Image of Katarina Witt
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
- Katarina Witt
Collection: Teacher
Image of Yoko Ono
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
- Yoko Ono
Collection: Teacher
Image of Sarah Jessica Parker
My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.
- Sarah Jessica Parker
Collection: Teacher
Image of Mark Hoppus
From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
- Mark Hoppus
Collection: Teacher
Image of Yo-Yo Ma
I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
- Yo-Yo Ma
Collection: Teacher
Image of John Madden
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
- John Madden
Collection: Teacher
Image of Talib Kweli
I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
- Talib Kweli
Collection: Teacher
Image of William Hague
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
- William Hague
Collection: Teacher
Image of Barbra Streisand
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
- Barbra Streisand
Collection: Teacher
Image of George Osborne
I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
- George Osborne
Collection: Teacher
Image of Katey Sagal
Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
- Katey Sagal
Collection: Teacher
Image of Joyce Carol Oates
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Collection: Teacher
Image of Beverly Cleary
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
- Beverly Cleary
Collection: Teacher
Image of Jonathan Kozol
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.
- Jonathan Kozol
Collection: Teacher
Image of Ann Richards
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
- Ann Richards
Collection: Teacher
Image of Valerie Simpson
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
- Valerie Simpson
Collection: Teacher
Image of Katherine Jenkins
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.
- Katherine Jenkins
Collection: Teacher
Image of Mark Zandi
In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.
- Mark Zandi
Collection: Teacher
Image of Elisabeth Shue
I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.
- Elisabeth Shue
Collection: Teacher
Image of Dominic Monaghan
My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.
- Dominic Monaghan
Collection: Teacher
Image of Jennie Garth
I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.
- Jennie Garth
Collection: Teacher
Image of Freeman A. Hrabowski III
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
- Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Collection: Teacher
Image of Vinny Guadagnino
I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.
- Vinny Guadagnino
Collection: Teacher
Image of Cory Monteith
I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.
- Cory Monteith
Collection: Teacher
Image of Alexander Graham Bell
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Collection: Teacher
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: Teacher
Image of Robert Sternberg
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
- Robert Sternberg
Collection: Teacher
Image of Huston Smith
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
- Huston Smith
Collection: Teacher
Image of Michael Shellenberger
Trump gives progressives a way to channel whatever guilt they might have - whether from preventing homebuilding, benefitting from unfair taxes and pensions, or depriving black and Latino students the teacher quality and school funding they need - into a sanctimonious tribal rage against Republican racism.
- Michael Shellenberger
Collection: Teacher
Image of William Glasser
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
- William Glasser
Collection: Teacher
Image of Richard P. Feynman
The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.
- Richard P. Feynman
Collection: Teacher
Image of Elaine MacDonald
If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
- Elaine MacDonald
Collection: Teacher
Image of Jack Welch
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
Collection: Teacher
Image of Langston Hughes
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
- Langston Hughes
Collection: Teacher
Image of Thom Tillis
We don't classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don't use the example of one bad teacher in our children's school to draw a negative conclusion of the entire teaching profession. We should apply that same rational standard when it comes to how we view law enforcement.
- Thom Tillis
Collection: Teacher
Image of Ken Wilber
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
- Ken Wilber
Collection: Teacher
Image of Steven Wright
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am.
- Steven Wright
Collection: Teacher
Image of Rosa Parks
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.
- Rosa Parks
Collection: Teacher