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source: "TIFF FUTURES: ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘A Royal Affair’ Star Alicia Vikander is Getting Her Fair Share of Corset Training". www.indiewire.com. September 07, 2012.

topic: Teacher, Stars, Two, Piano Teachers

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.

- Alister E. McGrath

topic: Spiritual, Teacher, Example, Vested Interests

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Real, Practise

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

- Allan Sherman

source: Song: Turn Back the Clock

topic: Education, Teacher, Purple

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

- Ally Carter

source: "Out of Sight, Out of Time". Book by Ally Carter, March 13, 2012.

topic: Teacher, Teachers Day

Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.

- Ally Carter

topic: Teacher, Abby, Arguing, Gunmen

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

- Alma Adams

topic: Teacher, Children, School

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

- Alma Gluck

topic: Teacher, Hands, Understanding

Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.

- Alois Podhajsky

topic: Teacher, Horse, Art, Dressage, Classical Art

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

- Alonzo Mourning

topic: Teacher, Responsibility, Parent

I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

- Alton Brown

topic: Teacher, Home, Goofy

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

topic: Teacher, Careers, Knowing

I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.

- Amanda Beard

topic: Teacher, Fall, Class

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

- Amartya Sen

topic: Teacher, Parent, Enlightening

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

- Amartya Sen

topic: Teacher, Years, Ideas

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Education, Teacher, Eye, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Personal Influence, True Teacher

I wasn't a very good teacher.

- Amos Lee

source: "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

topic: Teacher, Good Teacher, Very Good

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

- Amy Chua

topic: Mom, Teacher, Responsibility

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

- Amy Chua

topic: Teacher, Children, Believe

It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.

- Amy Hempel

topic: Teacher, Liars, Drinking, Food Poisoning, Orange Juice

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

- Amy Lee

topic: Teacher, Kids, Want

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Teacher Student, Overload

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher, Math Education, Spring Awakening

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Sexy, Teacher, Thinking, Sexy Women

When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Teacher, School, Able, Wonderful Teacher

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.

- Andreas Schleicher

source: "'Give us a little more respect,' demand stressed-out teachers" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

topic: Teacher, Quality, Education System

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

- Andres Segovia

topic: Teacher, Guitar, Effort

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Mother, Teacher, Dad

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

- Andrew Shue

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, Teenager

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

- Andrew Shue

topic: Soccer, Teacher, Talking, Soccer Coach

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

- Andrew Shue

topic: Teacher, Math, Months, Math Teacher

Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.

- Andy Andrews

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Teacher, Reading, Men, Noticer

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Teacher, People, Best Teacher

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Teacher, Different, Answers

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

- Andy Hargreaves

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Learning, Powerpoint, And Off

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

- Andy Hargreaves

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

- Andy Hargreaves

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Learning

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

- Andy Hargreaves

topic: Leadership, Teacher, School, Bad Teacher

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

- Andy Hargreaves

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

- Andy Hargreaves

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Learning, Professional Development

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

- Andy Hargreaves

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Learning, Perfect Teacher

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Teacher, People, Literature, Inspirational Teacher, Teachers And Teaching

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Teacher, Crazy, Teaching

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Teach

I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways.

- Angela Lindvall

topic: Beautiful, Teacher, Yoga, Teacher Training, Yoga Teachers

Everyone wins when children - and especially girls â€“ have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls' education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.

- Angelique Kidjo

topic: Girl, Teacher, Children, Fulfilling Life, Access To Education

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Teacher, Pain, Views, Human Wisdom

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

- Ann Bancroft

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, Struggle

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Teacher, School, Priesthood, School Teachers

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

- Ann Curry

topic: Teacher, Father, Thinking

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

- Ann Landers

topic: Motivational, Success, Teacher, Working So Hard, Inspirational Hard Work

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

- Ann Landers

topic: Summer, Teacher, Determination, Effort And Hard Work

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

- Ann Richards

topic: Teacher, Heart, Leader

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Teacher, Children, People

A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

- Anna Nalick

topic: Teacher, Loneliness, Math, Math Teacher, Valuable Lessons

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. I said, No, I want to sing all the other stuff. If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

- Anna Netrebko

topic: Teacher, Moving, Want

My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Teacher, Believe, School

Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Running, Teacher, Rap, Chewing, Deadly Sins

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

- Anne Bancroft

topic: Teacher, Lucky, Saws

Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.

- Anne Bishop

source: Anne Bishop (2003). “The black jewels trilogy”, Roc

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

- Anne Carson

topic: Teacher, School, Years

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

- Anne Hathaway

topic: Girl, Teacher, Ducks, Mia, Princess Diaries

If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Spiritual, Teacher, Love You, Spiritual Community

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

- Anne Michaels

source: Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Heart, Lodges, Retired Teacher

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

- Anne Robinson

topic: Teacher, Kicking, Rivals

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Teacher, Children, Teaching

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Thinking, Incorporating

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

- Anne Truitt

topic: Education, Teacher, Spring

The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, 'Overwhelming feeling of dread.' That was going to go over nicely.

- Anne Ursu

source: Anne Ursu (2008). “The Siren Song”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

topic: Teacher, Feelings, Would Be, Charlotte

Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.

- Anneli Rufus

topic: Teacher, Islands, Shy, Choosy

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, oÂne of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.

- Annie Besant

topic: Teacher, Character, Islam, Arabian

Our primary identity has become that of being consumers â€“ not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.

- Annie Leonard

topic: Mother, Teacher, Identity

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

- Annie Proulx

topic: Teacher, Reading, Writing

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

- Annie Proulx

topic: Teacher, Reading, Writing

Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?

- Anthony Bennett

topic: Teacher, Believe, Learning

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Teacher, Book, People, English Teacher

My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

- Anthony Browne

topic: Mother, Teacher, Brother

Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach.

- Anthony D. Williams

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, Educational

Life is the best teacher.

- Anthony D. Williams

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, Educational

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

- Anthony Holden

topic: Teacher, Old School, Literature, Music Teacher, Old Music

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Teacher, Book, Rivers, Inspiring Nature, Crimson

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Teacher, Artist, Actors

America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

- Anton Seidl

source: Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.106, Parrot Press

topic: Teacher, School, America

A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Teacher, Father, Real, Sunday School, Sunday School Teacher

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

- Antoni Tapies

topic: Country, Teacher, Real

My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

- Antonin Dvorak

topic: Country, Teacher, Encouragement

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

- Antonio Tabucchi

topic: Life, Teacher, Jobs

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

- Antonio Tabucchi

topic: Teacher, Views, Literature

My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers, Jack Ratcliffe, who had given an excellent course on electromagnetic theory during my final undergraduate year.

- Antony Hewish

topic: Teacher, Years, Decision, Undergraduate, Antenna

Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called life and taught by a teacher who is none other than self-experience only.

- Anuj

topic: Teacher, Self, Intellectual

Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them [the students] unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.

- April Greiman

topic: Teacher, Voice, Design

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

- Arabella Weir

topic: Teacher, Opportunity, Luxury, Opportunities To Learn

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.

- Archie Panjabi

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Teacher, Father

Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored your strengths or may not have encouraged you to develop them. You can discover your basic capacities by experimenting with things that you always wanted to do. Don't be discouraged by notions that seem "silly" or "foolish" or "not you." Do it! Who knows what will happen?

- Ari Kiev

topic: Teacher, Children, Silly, Special Needs

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

- Aristophanes

topic: Teacher, Crabs, Teach

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

- Aristotle

topic: Leadership, Education, Teacher, Teachers And Teaching, Art Of Living

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

- Aristotle

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Humor

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Teacher, Teaching, Good Teacher, Good Teaching

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

- Aristotle

topic: Appreciation, Teacher, Reaching

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

- Arne Duncan

source: "Ask the Teachers" by Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

topic: Teacher, Support, Parent

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

- Arne Duncan

topic: Teacher, Children, Differences

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

- Arne Duncan

topic: Teacher, School, Years

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

- Arne Duncan

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Earning, Caliber

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

- Arne Duncan

topic: Teacher, Educational, Teaching, Love Teaching, Challenging Work

Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Teacher, Nurse, Heaven, Seats

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past...

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Teacher, Children, Teaching

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

- Arthur Compton

topic: Teacher, Religious, Civilization, Implicit

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Inspiring, Teacher, Learning, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Change, Teacher, Book, Standstill

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Education, Teacher, Foundation

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten.

- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

topic: Teacher, Learning, School, Retention

You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

- Astrid Lindgren

source: Astrid Lindgren (1998). “Pippi Goes to School”

topic: Mother, Teacher, Kings, Cannibal

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Mother, Teacher, Keys, Dykes

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

- Aulus Persius Flaccus

source: "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Prologue, 10,

topic: Teacher, Art, Eating

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

- Aulus Persius Flaccus

topic: Teacher, Art, Hunger

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

- Aulus Persius Flaccus

topic: Teacher, Art, Invention

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