Irreverent Quote by Alice Walker

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort…

— Brad Warner

So what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does occasionally, the…

— Brad Warner

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We…

— Frederick Lenz

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

— Bruce Rauner

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with…

— Lance Burton

Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of…

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.

— Joey Lauren Adams

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

— Michael Craig-Martin

“He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence…

— Nora Ephron

“The best teacher is not life, but the crystallized and distilled experience of the most sensitive, reflective, and most observant of our human beings,…

— Nathan M. Pusey

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a…

— Stephen Mangan

“As Sandra would say, all I felt was Zen. But not Quinn. Quinn was not Zen. He was the opposite of Zen. I’d made…

— Penny Reid