Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games… — Mikey Way Copy Share Image
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king,… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing.… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers,… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses—and so that we don’t have to be scrounging… — Marion Barry Copy Share Image
To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders,… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
My singing teacher said it would take three years before I could sing well enough to be accepted as a professional. They… — Barbi Benton Copy Share Image
“School is like theater. Teachers are like directors, students are like actors, and classes are like theatrical presentations.” — Victor Miller Copy Share Image
“Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to… — Jake Anderson Copy Share Image
Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother,… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The Teacher asked all the students in a class to write an essay on a cricket match. All were busy writing except… — Troublemaker Copy Share Image
The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“But that was all teachers ever did, wasn’t it? They grew and grew and grew until they wondered if they were the… — Mynah K Copy Share Image
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
