There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
People are competing to win at a game that is a loser's game. The game is to have better routine images than… — Henry Holmes Smith Copy Share Image
I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I was… — Casey Nicholaw Copy Share Image
I was basically a broke student, and I moved to Asia and was making some money to go back to school. One… — Maggie Q Copy Share Image
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism,… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
“The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
“It reminded me that they [the students] were more than just their scholarly shortcomings and gripes about the workload. Each had a… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Never underestimate your players; they can do it with enough game-like practice. Coaches must put more emphasis in practice and in life… — John Kessel Copy Share Image
Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Laney held up a hand. "I checked it out. He went there on scholarship and paid the rest with student loans. And… — Julie James Copy Share Image
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it… — Roger Clemens Copy Share Image
I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“some students look at the problems that they're facing and they draw global conclusions from them. They say this is not just… — Shankar Vedantam Copy Share Image
At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that… — Thomas G. Stemberg Copy Share Image
As a community college professor for over twenty years, I've seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances,… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
Race is not the only differential in South Africa, in the new South Africa, where all schools are open, mother-tongue education is… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image