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- Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
- Vijay Singh on Teacher
- Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
- Godfrey Reggio on Teacher
- He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
- Walt Whitman on Teacher
- He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
- Shimon Peres on Teacher
- He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.
- Glenn Ford on Teacher
- History is Philosophy teaching by example.
- Thucydides on Teacher
- History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
- Rosa Luxemburg on Teacher
- I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.
- Niki Taylor on Teacher
- I always wanted to be a teacher.
- Nicky Hilton on Teacher
- I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
- Roald Hoffmann on Teacher
- I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
- Alexander The Great on Teacher
- I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
- A. C. Benson on Teacher
- I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
- Miroslav Vitous on Teacher
- I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
- Carl Rogers on Teacher
- I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
- Dave Eggers on Teacher
- I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
- Temple Grandin on Teacher
- I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
- I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.
- Tony Visconti on Teacher
- I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.
- Tony Dungy on Teacher
- I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
- Gertrude Stein on Teacher
- I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
- Catherine Helen Spence on Teacher
- I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
- Richard Dreyfuss on Teacher
- I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
- Christopher Durang on Teacher
- I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
- Haruki Murakami on Teacher
- I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
- John Mahoney on Teacher
- I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.
- Susan Hampshire on Teacher
- I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.
- Miranda Cosgrove on Teacher
- I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
- Harry S. Truman on Teacher
- I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
- Mark Ruffalo on Teacher
- I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
- Margaret Spellings on Teacher
- I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
- Ellen Pompeo on Teacher
- I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
- Dana Spiotta on Teacher
- I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.
- Warren Zevon on Teacher
- I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
- Craig Ferguson on Teacher
- I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
- Paul O'Grady on Teacher
- I feel really good in the teacher role.
- Jimmy Chamberlin on Teacher
- I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
- Judy Collins on Teacher
- I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
- Gary Burton on Teacher
- I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.
- I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
- I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
- Miles Teller on Teacher
- I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.
- Dan Savage on Teacher
- I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
- Carla Bley on Teacher
- I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.
- Connie Britton on Teacher
- I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.
- Matt Cameron on Teacher
- I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.
- Danny McBride on Teacher
- I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
- Elizabeth Olsen on Teacher
- I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.
- Jeremy Irvine on Teacher
- I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
- John Leguizamo on Teacher
- I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
- Francis Ford Coppola on Teacher
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