Teaching Quotes

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Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens to you. They disassociate love… — Lynn G. Robbins
They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons. — Vince Lombardi
It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he… — Rajneesh
Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures. — Rajneesh
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Leo Tolstoy
If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what… — Sogyal Rinpoche
The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable… — Frederick Soddy
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring. — Sydney J. Harris
Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear. — Laozi
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How… — Eugen Herrigel
Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles. — Laozi
Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John… — Wallace Stegner
What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology? — Roman Jakobson
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work… — Flannery O'Connor
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back. — Carolyn Kizer
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at… — Nicholas Delbanco
I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're… — William Stafford
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole… — Robert Frost
The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide. — Hilma Wolitzer

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