Contact Quote by Manuel Puig Download Open image “Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.” — Manuel Puig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contact Distraction Education Madness People Teaching Young Young people
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot of fun… — Channing Dungey Copy Share Image
Teaching has always been a very important part of my life. It is one of the ways I contribute to society. It is also… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Teaching is very fulfilling because every day I go home feeling like I helped people. — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Teaching is enormously satisfying because I'm constantly learning more. Just constantly being exposed to new voices and new life experiences and new worldviews and… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand,… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming… — Hal Borland Copy Share
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying… — David Rakoff Copy Share
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image