Teaching Quotes

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

While we teach, we learn.

Teach the art of living well.

Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.

Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort.

Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't a good thing in some ways.

It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments.

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.

Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.

Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

When I teach people, I marry them.

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

When all is said and done, the home is the ideal forum for teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

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

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.