Teacher Quotes

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

When I teach people, I marry them.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.

'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.

With a project like 'Teachers Lounge,' you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right.

There are many wonderfully qualified teachers out there, but that doesn't mean that each teacher is suitable to the same person, anymore than people fall in love with the same person.

We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.

We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do and how to practice. And we should not be lazy.

We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.

There are certain teachers who shouldn't be teachers.

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers.

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

I have been maturing as a teacher.

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction, but they just encouraged you to think for yourself.

I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.