Famous Quotes
- Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
- Clay Aiken on Teacher
- Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
- Betty Buckley on Teacher
- What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
- Helen Keller on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
- William Glasser on Teacher
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle on Teacher
- What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
- Simon Newcomb on Teacher
- When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.
- Lily Allen on Teacher
- When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky on Teacher
- When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.
- When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.
- Cecilia Bartoli on Teacher
- When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
- Brian Ferneyhough on Teacher
- When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
- Lance Burton on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.
- Melvin Burgess on Teacher
- When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
- Norman MacCaig on Teacher
- When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
- Victor Salva on Teacher
- When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.
- When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
- Sylvester Stallone on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
- David Coverdale on Teacher
- When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
- Tom Perrotta on Teacher
- When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
- George J. Mitchell on Teacher
- When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
- Gordon Getty on Teacher
- When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
- 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 on Teacher
- When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
- Kazuo Ishiguro on Teacher
- While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
- Samuel Dash on Teacher
- Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
- Diogenes Of Sinope on Teacher
- Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.
- David Puttnam on Teacher
- Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
- David Guterson on Teacher
- Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
- Dan Simmons on Teacher
- Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
- Alanna Ubach on Teacher
- You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
- You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
- Charles Stanley on Teacher
- You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
- Swami Vivekananda on Teacher
- You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
- 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 on Teacher
- You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.
- Danny McBride on Teacher
- You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
- Joan Cusack on Teacher
- You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.
- Tony Dungy on Teacher
- You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
- Elisabeth Rohm on Teacher
- You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.
- Alanna Ubach on Teacher
- Your best teacher is your last mistake.
- Ralph Nader on Teacher
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