Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
We know that African American students tend to be relational learners. It's about the relationships between a teacher and student. Students respond… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“Even as we improved as teachers and as students, the children continued to have raging impulse-control problems; the very thing that made… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You know how you're in elementary school and the teacher goes around the room and, like, 'What do you want to be… — Kyle Kuzma Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them...… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“The genesis of my interest in being a writer can be traced to fourth grade when we listened to a radio production… — Laura Abbot Copy Share Image
Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“I’d like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that ‘Water is best absorbed by… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own;… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor and I said this to each other after we saw The Ghost Writer. Every time Roman Polanski did a "No,… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
A sponge is a funny animal to center a show on. At first, I drew a few natural sponges - amorphous shapes,… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Obviously, ["Fences"] is a character-driven piece in every sense of the word, and Denzel [Washington] knows the actor. He gave us two… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Eight-year-old Jimmy comes home from school with a note from his teacher that says, “Jimmy stole a pencil from the student sitting… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a… — Gerard Cox Copy Share Image
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We spent $100 billion on education, saving the education system 300,000 teachers who were laid off because of the recession. We also… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano… — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings -… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In high school, I had a teacher there who was really great to me and with whom I finally dared to admit… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image