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Quotes with tag Teacher:

Author	Quote	Rank
Bill Gates	Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.	101
Malala Yousafzai	Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.	101
Swami Vivekananda	You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.	101
Julius Caesar	Experience is the teacher of all things.	101
Steve Harvey	Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.	101
William Wordsworth	Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.	101
Beau Bridges	My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.	101
Brad Henry	A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.	101
Chuck Close	My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.	101
Donald Norman	We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.	101
Erin Gruwell	I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.	101
Gina Bellman	I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.	101
Henry Adams	A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.	101
James Franco	My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.	101
Keith Emerson	Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.	101
Olivia De Havilland	I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.	101
Ricky Martin	Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.	101
Roger Moore	Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.	101
Solomon Ortiz	Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.	101
Stevie Wonder	Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.	101
Temple Grandin	I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.	101
Thurgood Marshall	None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.	101
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.	101
Vernon Law	Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.	101
Victor Salva	When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.	101
Ving Rhames	Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.	101
Francesca Lia Block	Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.	101
Fred W. Friendly	TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.	101
Grace Poe	My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.	101
Kurt Masur	The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.	101
Michael Morpurgo	It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.	101
Philip Schultz	As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.	101
William Jay Smith	As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.	101
Adora Svitak	Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.	101
Cecilia Bartoli	When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.	101
Dan Simmons	I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.	101
Eliphas Levi	A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.	101
Elisabeth Rohm	You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.	101
Eva Amurri	A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.	101
Fred Gwynne	I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall.	101
Godfrey Reggio	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.	101
James S. Coleman	A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.	101
Natasha Calis	I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.	101
Philip Wylie	One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.	101
Taron Egerton	I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.	101
Betsy Brandt	In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.	101
Cara Buono	I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'	101
Ed Pastor	As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.	101
Garry Hynes	My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.	101
Gertrude Jekyll	A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.	101
Gilbert Highet	A good teacher is a determined person.	101
Howard Crosby	A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.	101
Joe Manchin	Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.	101
Michael J. Saylor	Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.	101
Paul Twitchell	There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.	101
Rami Malek	My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.	101
Rob Thomas	It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'	101
Susan Isaacs	Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.	101
Bethany Joy Lenz	I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns.	101
Catherynne M. Valente	Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should stop immediately. It only took the one to tell me something different to light a fire under me.	101
Christopher Paolini	Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.	101
David A. Adler	I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books, including 'Fraction Fun,' 'Calculator Riddles,' and 'Shape Up!' 'Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons.'	101
David Puttnam	There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.	101
Edmond H. Fischer	It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.	101
Elaine MacDonald	If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.	101
John Strachan	To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.	101
Judy Greer	I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting.	101
Kathryn Newton	I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.	101
Maggie Gallagher	Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.	101
Mark Van Doren	The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.	101
Michael Bennet	Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.	101
Raymond Ochoa	I do my schooling through an independent study program where I am able to do all my work at home, and then every two weeks, I meet with my teacher and turn in my work. When I am on set, I work with a studio teacher, and we do a mandatory three hours of school a day.	101
Tyler Labine	I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.	101
Alanna Ubach	Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.	101
Charles Michael Davis	I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with, you learn a lot about them personally; it's not just about specific technique or poses. I also like Shavasana - not too many exercise routines let you nap at the end of them. You don't see nap pods in CrossFit gyms.	101
Cormac McCarthy	I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.	101
Diora Baird	I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.	101
James Collins	If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.	101
Roger Rosenblatt	Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.	101
Siobhan Fallon Hogan	During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend was Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller. She encouraged me to talk to her. After doing that, she recommended Catholic University's M.F.A. acting program. So that's what I did.	101
Stanley R. Jaffe	I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.	101
Daniel Pennac	The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.	101
David Ferry	I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what's in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines.	101
Josh Duhamel	My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.	101
Scott Snyder	I remember when I was in school I had this teacher give me this E.L. Doctorow quote: They asked him how much historical research he does for his books and he said, 'As little as possible.' So I try and adhere to that.	101
Sheldon Jackson	The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.	101
Dermot Healy	When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.	101
Jacques d'Amboise	Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.	101
Shirley Hufstedler	The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.	101
Richard Stengel	If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.	101
John Morgridge	My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.	101
Michael Goldenberg	In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.	101
Joan Ganz Cooney	My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.	101
Joelle Carter	I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.	101
Joe Davis	I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.	101
Jeanine Basinger	Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.	101
C. S. Lewis	The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.	102
Bill Gates	Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.	102
Carl Jung	One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.	102
Phil McGraw	I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.	102
Alexander the Great	I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.	102
Charles Kuralt	Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.	102
Dan Rather	The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.	102
Donald Norman	So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.	102
Erin Gruwell	I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.	102
Frank Press	My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.	102
Guy Kawasaki	If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.	102
John Henrik Clarke	A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.	102
Laverne Cox	My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.	102
Matt Groening	People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.	102
Stuart Scott	Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.	102
Talib Kweli	I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.	102
Ziyi Zhang	I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.	102
Amos Bronson Alcott	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.	102
Andra Day	I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.	102
Brian Ferneyhough	When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.	102
Dan Savage	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.	102
David Wenham	I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.	102
Deborah Mailman	My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.	102
Doreen Cronin	I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.	102
Ellen Pompeo	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.	102
John Legend	Experience is a great teacher.	102
Luanne Rice	What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.	102
Paula Creamer	Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.	102
Wallace Stegner	A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.	102
Ann Bancroft	I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.	102
Berenice Abbott	There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.	102
Brian Jacques	I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.	102
Bruce Coville	Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.	102
Dwight Yoakam	My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.	102
Hugh Dillon	I had a great acting teacher in high school. But I didn't like acting because it took too many people to get the job done. You have to talk to too many people and listen to others' opinions. With music, you get a few friends together and just make it.	102
Kristin Bauer van Straten	My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.	102
Pierce Brown	Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.	102
Robert Sean Leonard	My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.	102
Tyler Hilton	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.	102
Christa McAuliffe	I touch the future. I teach.	102
David Suchet	When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.	102
Elizabeth Hardwick	Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.	102
Harry Callahan	Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.	102
James Levine	I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.	102
John Philip Sousa	I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.	102
Karen Hesse	From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.	102
Keisha Castle-Hughes	I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.	102
Mavis Staples	My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.	102
Peng Liyuan	A child's first teacher is its mother.	102
Robert Sternberg	There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.	102
Stephen Mangan	I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.	102
Alicia Vikander	I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.	102
David Puttnam	Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.	102
Ephraim Mirvis	'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.	102
Glenne Headly	To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.	102
Lucy Deakins	For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.	102
Titus Welliver	I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.	102
Toru Takemitsu	Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.	102
Dash Mihok	My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.	102
January Jones	I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.	102
Jonathan Ames	When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.	102
Simon van der Meer	My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.	102
Tom Brown, Jr.	Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.	102
Adhir Kalyan	Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.	102
Ally Condie	One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.	102
Daniel Pennac	All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.	102
Jesse Williams	We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.	102
Mary Catherine Bateson	Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.	102
Roald Hoffmann	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.	102
Shaun Sipos	I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.	102
Darren Robinson	I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.	102
Julie London	I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.	102
Arthur Holly Compton	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.	102
John Warner	As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.	102
Jake Kasdan	In the time since I've done 'Bad Teacher,' I've produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.	102
John Burnham Schwartz	I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.	102
June Diane Raphael	I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name.	102
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.	103
Maria Montessori	The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'	103
Carter G. Woodson	Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.	103
Chuck Schumer	I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.	103
Dorothea Dix	The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.	103
Kazuo Ishiguro	When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.	103
Lily Tomlin	I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.	103
Mike Krzyzewski	The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.	103
Quentin Blake	I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.	103
Ralph Nader	Your best teacher is your last mistake.	103
Rush Limbaugh	Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.	103
Aida Turturro	I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.	103
Burl Ives	I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.	103
Dave Davies	We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.	103
David Harewood	At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.	103
Kay Granger	I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.	103
Margaret Spellings	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.	103
Michelle Phan	I was inspired by many teachers when I started my channel, Bob Ross being one of them. His voice was so soothing, almost like hypnosis. He was that great of a teacher, even the casual viewer could learn how to paint from watching his show. Growing up, I just remember him being so mesmerizing on screen.	103
Minna Antrim	Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.	103
Nolan Gould	I'm pretty much using media all day because my school is online. It's sort of like homeschooling but also like going to real school - you log in and do all your work and email it to the teacher, and we have a teacher who oversees us on set.	103
Arthur Koestler	Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.	103
Cat Cora	My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.	103
Chang-Rae Lee	I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.	103
Chick Corea	I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.	103
Gerald Jampolsky	When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.	103
Maria Callas	That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.	103
Marilyn Hacker	As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.	103
Matthew Pearl	My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.	103
Nancy Roman	I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'	103
Nestor Carbonell	There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher who introduced me to the Meisner technique for acting. Once I read that book, I said, 'Wow, if I could do that and have that honest moment on stage, that would be amazing.'	103
Stephen Pagliuca	I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.	103
Ben Vereen	I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.	103
Catherine Helen Spence	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.	103
David E. Kelley	Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.	103
Dev Hynes	I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.	103
Gilbert Highet	A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.	103
Gloria Gaither	Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.	103
Hector Berlioz	Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.	103
Kerry Healey	As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.	103
Lisa McMann	I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.	103
Pauline Collins	When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.	103
Rob Delaney	I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.	103
Grizz Chapman	Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a football coach? Why can't I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can't do. So just give us a chance.	103
Jalal Talabani	All I wanted was to be a university teacher.	103
Jenna Bush	I hope that I serve by being a teacher.	103
Patricia Neal	A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.	103
Sal Albanese	During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.	103
Thora Birch	When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.	103
Adelaide Kane	I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.	103
Alanna Ubach	You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.	103
Chris Parnell	To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.	103
Didi Conn	When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.	103
Robert Stromberg	Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.	103
Sidney Hook	Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.	103
Bill Bowerman	A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.	103
John Mahoney	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.	103
Michael Spence	I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.	103
Susan Hampshire	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.	103
James Wolk	There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.	103
Megan Park	I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.	103
Severo Ochoa	Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.	103
Andy Andrews	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.	103
John Glover	I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!	103
Melvin Burgess	When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.	103
John Taylor Gatto	In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.	103
Frances Farmer	The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.	104
Frederick William Robertson	The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.	104
Giorgio Vasari	Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.	104
Horace Mann	A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.	104
Ian McShane	My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.	104
Jeff Kinney	On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'	104
Michael Porter	The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.	104
Nathan Fielder	I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.	104
Omar Dorsey	At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.	104
Paul O'Grady	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.	104
Paul Wellstone	I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.	104
Warren Bennis	Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.	104
Warren Zevon	I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.	104
William Glasser	Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.	104
August Wilson	I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.	104
Daryl Hall	I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.	104
David Price	The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.	104
Eva Longoria	I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.	104
Guy Davenport	My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.	104
Niklaus Wirth	My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.	104
Robert Duvall	I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.	104
Willard Wigan	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.	104
Devon Sawa	I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.	104
Ed O'Neill	That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'	104
Jose Antonio Vargas	Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here.	104
Louis Sachar	I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.	104
Martti Ahtisaari	The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.	104
Sean Covey	Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.	104
Thom Gunn	My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.	104
Tom Perrotta	When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.	104
Will Hermes	Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.	104
Will Poulter	My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.	104
Anne Carson	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.	104
Carla Bley	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.	104
Carrie Ann Inaba	I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.	104
Jack Reynor	I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'	104
Jay Mohr	You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.	104
Jay Nixon	I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.	104
Jessica Raine	I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.	104
Miroslav Vitous	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.	104
Aaron Levie	My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.	104
Charlie Rowe	My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is an actress. My granddad was a cameraman. They would've been surprised if I wanted to be a dentist or something like that.	104
Dakota Blue Richards	I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.	104
Doris Roberts	Everybody's a teacher if you listen.	104
Eugen Herrigel	Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.	104
Grazia Deledda	After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.	104
Curtis Mayfield	My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.	104
Ama Ata Aidoo	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.	104
Colin O'Donoghue	Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.	104
Robert Gibbs	I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.	104
Jim Pattison	My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.	104
John Jay Chapman	Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.	104
John Steinbeck	I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.	105
Lady Gaga	Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.	105
Buddy Rich	But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.	105
Frida Giannini	I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.	105
Gus Van Sant	My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.	105
Justin Trudeau	I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.	105
Valerie Simpson	Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.	105
Vijay Singh	Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.	105
Wendy Kopp	Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.	105
Bat for Lashes	I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.	105
Frank McCourt	The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.	105
John Williams	I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.	105
Nicole Anderson	I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.	105
Sarah Sutton	Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.	105
Archie Panjabi	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.'	105
Caroline Leavitt	I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.	105
Dan Simmons	Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.	105
Jaclyn Smith	I wanted to be a ballet teacher.	105
Kate Clinton	A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.	105
Margaret D. Nadauld	A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies the doctrine and teachings of a perfect teacher, the Master. She is a noble example to all who know her.	105
Shinichi Suzuki	Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.	105
Ada Yonath	My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.	105
Bainbridge Colby	Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.	105
Gale Harold	My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.	105
Janet Fitch	I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.	105
Li Bingbing	I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.	105
Peggy Lipton	In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.	105
Taylor Mali	When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.	105
Bernhard Schlink	There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.	105
Brad Schneider	If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.	105
Lauren DeStefano	It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.	105
Michael Bennet	I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.	105
Chad Hugo	I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.	105
Roger Bart	In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.	105
Roman Romanenko	It was actually pretty difficult to grow up in the Star City. There were regular kids around me, and everybody knew that my father was a cosmonaut. Even at school, every teacher could comment on my behavior just because I was considered special.	105
Sidney Hook	Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.	105
Jane Yolen	Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.	105
Matt Frewer	I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.	105
James Galway	I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.	105
Khalil Gibran	I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.	106
Phyllis Diller	We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.	106
Andy Rooney	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.	106
Charles Kuralt	When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.	106
Ellen Ochoa	A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.	106
Eva Green	I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.	106
Freeman A. Hrabowski III	My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.	106
Glenn Beck	Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.	106
Niall Ferguson	As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.	106
Zubin Mehta	My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.	106
Antonio Tabucchi	Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.	106
Charles J. Shields	The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.	106
Ellie Kemper	My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.	106
Gary Sinise	The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.	106
Gordon Getty	When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.	106
Howard Stringer	I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.	106
Laura Esquivel	As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.	106
Lou Doillon	The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy position, and you'd have 10 seconds to do a drawing. Then you'd do a one-minute drawing.	106
Nicky Hilton	I always wanted to be a teacher.	106
Niki Taylor	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.	106
Peter Brimelow	Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.	106
William Forsythe	I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad. He took an interest in me and got me to do a play. I got hooked on acting, and it gave me something constructive to do. I had a lot of energy.	106
D. B. Sweeney	I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.	106
Deval Patrick	A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.	106
George Shearing	I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.	106
Gracie Allen	Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.	106
Krista Allen	I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.	106
Robert Fogel	No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace.	106
Rosalind Wiseman	As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.	106
Sanford I. Weill	I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.	106
Amos Lee	I wasn't a very good teacher.	106
Greg Iles	My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.	106
Jaime Pressly	Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.	106
Ken Wilber	What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.	106
Madison Pettis	When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.	106
Robert Sternberg	In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.	106
Simon Callow	My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.	106
Caroline Lawrence	Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.	106
Jenna Bush	As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.	106
Melissa Rauch	I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.	106
Adam Riess	Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.	106
James Broughton	I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.	106
Jim Hunt	In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.	106
Jose Ferreira	Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.	106
Samuel Dash	While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.	106
Jon Secada	I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.	106
Marta Kristen	I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.	106
Jenn Proske	I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.	106
Joe Thomas	The last person to teach me how to act was my A-level Theatre Studies teacher at school, which I literally still draw on. Got an A!	106
Joyce Meyer	Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.	107
Steve Harvey	My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.	107
Anne Rice	I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.	107
Carl Rogers	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.	107
Cary Fukunaga	Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'	107
Diogenes	Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?	107
Dorothea Dix	To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.	107
Flip Wilson	My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.	107
Howard Nemerov	A teacher is a person who never says anything once.	107
Idina Menzel	My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.	107
Pete Carroll	Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.	107
Quintilian	It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.	107
Simon Hoggart	During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.	107
William Glasser	What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.	107
William Jennings Bryan	The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.	107
Dule Hill	Whether you're working in corporate America or you're a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - we're all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When 'Psych' ends, I will be looking for another job.	107
Frederick Reines	I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.	107
Michele Bachmann	The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.	107
Abraham Verghese	There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.	107
Kate Micucci	My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.	107
Ken Stott	I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.	107
Mike Shinoda	My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.	107
Pat Boone	Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.	107
Patricia Marx	I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.	107
Sam Abell	My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.	107
Shreya Ghoshal	My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there.	107
Tucker Carlson	The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.	107
Ajay Naidu	My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.	107
Bellamy Young	I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.	107
Kurt Bills	The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.	107
Major Owens	We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.	107
Mark Mothersbaugh	My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.	107
Caroline Lawrence	At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.	107
Chris Hayes	My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.	107
Diego Luna	I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.	107
John Wells	I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.	107
Martin H. Fischer	A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.	107
Michael Bennet	Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.	107
CC Sabathia	I remember one time in my junior year, in my art class, our teacher had us doing, like, finger paints, and I went and put a stripe on a girl's shirt, and it turned into a big paint fight. Paint all over the walls, all over everybody. It was pretty fun.	107
Chelsea Kane	I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.	107
Santiago Cabrera	My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.	107
Andy Daly	I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.	107
Josh Young	I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.	107
Kobe Bryant	Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.	108
Steve Harvey	I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.	108
William Osler	The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.	108
Chuck Norris	In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.	108
Elaine Pagels	People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.	108
Ellen Ochoa	Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.	108
Felix Adler	The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.	108
Flannery O'Connor	Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.	108
Huston Smith	Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.	108
Ike Barinholtz	My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.	108
Karlie Kloss	I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.	108
Linda Evangelista	It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.	108
Neale Donald Walsch	I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.	108
Oscar Hammerstein II	If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.	108
Will Ferrell	I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.	108
Alber Elbaz	When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.	108
Amy Chua	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.	108
Arthur Smith	I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.	108
Bob Keeshan	The best teacher is an entertainer.	108
Britt Robertson	I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun.	108
Bruce Barton	The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.	108
Dave Eggers	I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.	108
Guy Davenport	I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.	108
Joshua Bell	I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.	108
Karl G. Maeser	I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.	108
Kelli Berglund	I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.	108
Laura Benanti	My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.	108
Nicole Anderson	I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.	108
Susanne Bier	Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.	108
Tadashi Yanai	I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.	108
Trevor Rabin	I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.	108
Dav Pilkey	I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.	108
Estelle Morris	There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.	108
Keegan Bradley	Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean.	108
Max Brooks	I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'	108
Michelle Dockery	'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.	108
Ryan Eggold	I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.	108
Theo Jansen	I liked science very much. A science teacher in high school inspired me, and because of him, I began studying science at the university. But when I got there... well, the subject still attracted me a lot, but I had to do all these exams, and it was just like working in an office. I couldn't stand that.	108
Wendy Liebman	I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.	108
Dana Spiotta	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.	108
David Henry Hwang	My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.	108
Mark Knopfler	There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.	108
Taylor Mali	In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.	108
Tyler Posey	I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.	108
Aaron Tveit	I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.	108
Catherine Hicks	At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.	108
Marvin Hamlisch	I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.	108
James Tobin	My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.	108
Matthew Quick	I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.	108
Mikheil Saakashvili	I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.	108
Miles Teller	First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'	108
Amartya Sen	But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.	108
Mike Trout	As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.	108
Melissa Bank	Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.	108
James Carville	We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.	108
Henry Rollins	I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.	109
Audre Lorde	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.	109
Jack Welch	I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.	109
Chris Van Allsburg	The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.	109
Shah Rukh Khan	Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.	109
Simon Cowell	I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.	109
Thomas Friedman	There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.	109
William Glasser	This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.	109
William Hague	To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.	109
Zoe Sugg	I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.	109
Joy Harjo	When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.	109
Lee Smith	Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations.	109
Lorrie Moore	When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'	109
Matt Cameron	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.	109
Dave Sitek	Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!	109
Malorie Blackman	I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.	109
Peter Jurasik	I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.	109
Thom Gunn	It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!	109
Anita Brookner	I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.	109
Carla Bley	When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.	109
Roy Barnes	But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.	109
John Gokongwei	I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.	109
Mary Augusta Ward	The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.	109
Aristotle	The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.	110
Dalai Lama	In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.	110
Maria Montessori	We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.	110
Chesley Sullenberger	My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.	110
H. Rap Brown	The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.	110
Heidi Klum	For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.	110
Thucydides	History is Philosophy teaching by example.	110
Amos Bronson Alcott	A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.	110
Brian Blessed	When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.	110
Danny McBride	I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.	110
Laurieann Gibson	If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.	110
Lynda Resnick	As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.	110
Maya Lin	I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.	110
Peter Agre	Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.	110
Tom Vilsack	There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.	110
A. C. Benson	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.	110
David Friedman	My first career was as a coach and a teacher.	110
David Soul	My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.	110
James S. Coleman	Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.	110
Sue Kelly	As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.	110
Andrew Shue	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.	110
Birdy	It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.	110
Cara Buono	I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.	110
Erin Andrews	My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.	110
A. Bartlett Giamatti	Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.	110
Alex O'Loughlin	I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.	110
Ann Curry	I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.	110
John Singleton	It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.	110
Jeremy Irvine	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.	110
Darrell Royal	You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.	111
Kate Adie	I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.	111
Lynda Barry	Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.	111
Mike Krzyzewski	I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.	111
Sally Ride	For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.	111
Adam McKay	Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.	111
Calvin Trillin	I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.	111
Cory Monteith	I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.	111
Harvey Keitel	Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.	111
Renee Fleming	No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.	111
Rory Bremner	My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.	111
Scott Hamilton	I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.	111
Anupam Kher	In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work.	111
John Niven	Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher.	111
Marcia Gay Harden	I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.	111
Rachel Corrie	I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.	111
Dave Winfield	And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.	111
Josef Albers	It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.	111
Major Owens	Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.	111
Marya Hornbacher	My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!	111
Martin Mull	I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.	111
Steven Chu	My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.	111
Miles Teller	My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.	111
Monte Irvin	I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.	111
Roger Bart	Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.	111
Justin Chadwick	I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.	111
Jeffrey Donovan	Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.	111
Jonathan Shapiro	There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.	111
Denis Waitley	Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.	112
Bill O'Reilly	As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.	112
Craig Ferguson	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.'	112
Anthony Browne	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.	112
Chris Christie	A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.	112
Deborah Mailman	About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.	112
A. N. Wilson	I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.	112
Andrew Cohen	One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.	112
George Farquhar	We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.	112
Libba Bray	My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.	112
Sue Townsend	In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.	112
Bjarne Stroustrup	Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.	112
Billy Baldwin	My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.	112
Jamie Moyer	If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.	112
Maximillian Degenerez	Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.	112
Mathias Rust	I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.	112
Miles Teller	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.'	112
Peter Drucker	Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.	113
Jonathan Kozol	The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.	113
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.	113
Michael Gove	The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.	113
Rick Riordan	I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!	113
Shakuntala Devi	I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!	113
Whitney Houston	I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.	113
Kevin Richardson	I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.	113
Loni Anderson	My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.	113
William Irwin Thompson	The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.	113
David Coverdale	When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.	113
Joe Baca	Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.	113
William Arthur Ward	The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.	114
Maria Montessori	The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.	114
Alan Alda	When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.	114
Bertolt Brecht	The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.	114
Karl Lagerfeld	I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.	114
Lee Iacocca	In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.	114
Richard Simmons	When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.	114
Rosa Luxemburg	History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.	114
Vinny Guadagnino	I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.	114
Warren Spector	Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.	114
Danny McBride	You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.	114
George J. Mitchell	When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.	114
Ann Bancroft	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.	114
Anthony Holden	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.	114
Charisma Carpenter	I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.	114
Damon Lindelof	I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.	114
David Guterson	Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.	114
John Krasinski	I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.	114
Robert Osborne	My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.	114
Betty Buckley	Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.	114
Marcus du Sautoy	It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.	114
Jesse Williams	I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.	114
Justin Townes Earle	I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.	114
Vladimir Nabokov	Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.	115
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.	115
Alan Sugar	If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.	115
Bodhidharma	Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.	115
George Steiner	Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.	115
Luciano Pavarotti	I was an elementary school teacher.	115
Thomas Friedman	There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.	115
Viggo Mortensen	I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.	115
William Glasser	Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.	115
George Farquhar	Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.	115
Marilyn Hacker	My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.	115
Betty Buckley	For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'	115
Steve Guttenberg	If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.	115
Jean Reno	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.	115
Max Weber	The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.	116
Norm MacDonald	In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.	116
Timothy Noah	Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.	116
Virginia Postrel	Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future.	116
Yo-Yo Ma	I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.	116
A. S. Byatt	As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.	116
Allan Bloom	There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.	116
Maeve Binchy	I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.	116
Michael Dirda	Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.	116
Jennie Garth	I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.	116
Bill Moyers	As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.	116
Jon Hamm	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.	116
Kid Cudi	Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.	117
William Osler	No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.	117
Ben Stein	I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.	117
Chuck Noll	I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.	117
Feisal Abdul Rauf	I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.	117
Liev Schreiber	I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.	117
Saint Basil	What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.	117
Susan Cain	We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.	117
Tony Dungy	You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.	117
Vin Diesel	I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.	117
Ving Rhames	In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.	117
Yolanda Adams	I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.	117
Andrew Young	Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.	117
J. G. Ballard	In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.	117
John C. Reilly	Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.	117
Niklaus Wirth	My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.	117
Boman Irani	When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.	117
Josh Turner	I've never had the patience of a teacher.	117
Mark Hoppus	From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.	117
Condoleezza Rice	My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.	118
Eric Hoffer	It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.	118
Joseph Conrad	To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.	118
L. Lionel Kendrick	The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.	118
Nancy Pearcey	No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.	118
Stephen Colbert	I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.	118
Yakov Smirnoff	We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.	118
Alison Gopnik	Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.	118
Barry Hannah	I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.	118
Deb Caletti	My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.	118
Juan Williams	President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.	118
Loni Anderson	I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.	118
Tony Visconti	I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.	118
Simon Newcomb	My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.	118
Alan Shepard	I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.	119
Carrie Underwood	I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.	119
Flea	About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!	119
H. G. Wells	The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.	119
John Updike	Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.	119
Katherine Jenkins	Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.	119
Miranda Hart	I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'	119
Nicole Ari Parker	I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasn't like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The school's piece de resistance is college prep - it didn't teach you how to audition for a TV show.	119
Nina Simone	Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.	119
Paul O'Grady	My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.	119
Temple Grandin	I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.	119
Tracy Morgan	You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.	119
Brock Osweiler	Coach Godsey is a brilliant mind, a great teacher, and it's been fun learning from him so far.	119
Debra Messing	Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.	119
Garrett Hedlund	I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.	119
Michael Symon	I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.	119
Lily Allen	When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.	119
Tony Danza	I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.	119
Richard Dreyfuss	If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.	119
W. H. Auden	A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.	120
Maria Montessori	Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.	120
Anatole France	The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.	120
Anne Sullivan	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.	120
Edward Gibbon	Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.	120
Jeremy Clarkson	I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the 'Guardian' hating me. I like it when I read they want me to die painfully. Then I think I've really got under their skin. It's like annoying a teacher. Once they've shown signs of weakness, you really can go for them.	120
Morihei Ueshiba	Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.	120
Terry Teachout	Critics at their best are independent voices; people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers. I really do think of myself as a teacher.	120
Elisabeth Shue	I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.	120
John Irving	I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.	120
Andrew Shue	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.	120
Roddy Doyle	When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'	120
Jimmy Carter	In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'	121
Anne Sullivan	I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.	121
Cary Fukunaga	My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.	121
Chris Pratt	The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'	121
Elizabeth Olsen	I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.	121
Wendy Kopp	Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.	121
Krist Novoselic	Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.	121
C. L. R. James	My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.	121
Laura Carmichael	My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.	121
Martin Yan	I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.	121
Jimmy Chamberlin	I feel really good in the teacher role.	121
Anne Sullivan	My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!	122
Dave Chappelle	If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.	122
George Steiner	I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.	122
Loretta Young	Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.	122
Mike Krzyzewski	My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.	122
Syd Barrett	If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.	122
Yo-Yo Ma	My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.	122
Mac DeMarco	I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.'	122
Norman MacCaig	When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.	122
Taylor Schilling	I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.	122
Tony Judt	I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter.	122
Clay Aiken	But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.	122
Dr. Seuss	You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.	123
John C. Maxwell	A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.	123
Bono	When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.	123
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton	The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.	123
Flannery O'Connor	There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.	123
Harold Bloom	The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.	123
Jack Ma	I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.	123
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.	I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.	123
Anna Deavere Smith	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.	123
Kim Edwards	You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.	123
Travis Barker	I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.	123
John Krasinski	I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.	123
Tony Danza	What happened is, when I was doing 'Taxi,' the last year, we did this thing where we had on top hats and tails, and we pretended to tap-dance. And I said to myself, 'You know, I always wanted to know how to do this.' So I got myself a teacher, and I started studying, and I got hooked.	123
Christa McAuliffe	NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.	123
Michael Nutter	A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.	123
Rosa Parks	I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.	124
Barbra Streisand	I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.	124
David Blaine	My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.	124
Marilynne Robinson	Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.	124
Martha Stewart	I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.	124
Win Butler	My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.	124
Mary Lambert	I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love,' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.	124
Steve Case	My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.	124
Albert Einstein	It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.	125
Kevin Mitnick	I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.	125
Thomas Szasz	A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.	125
Geoffrey Canada	If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.	126
Henri Frederic Amiel	It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.	126
Les Dawson	I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.	126
Tony Benn	I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.	126
Danica McKellar	In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.	126
Julia Cameron	I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'	126
Dwight Yoakam	When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.	126
Neil deGrasse Tyson	I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.	201
John Ruskin	Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.	201
Daniel Goleman	A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'	201
Horace Mann	The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.	201
Paul Wellstone	If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?	201
Sarah Jessica Parker	My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.	201
Simone Weil	The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.	201
Steve Earle	The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.	201
Sugar Ray Leonard	To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.	201
Amy Chua	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.	201
Ann Richards	Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.	201
Anton du Beke	One day, I just wandered into a dance class full of girls, and that was it. I thought, 'Hang on! I'll have a bit of this.' I went back a week later and got dragged up by the teacher. It wasn't a massive calling.	201
Ben Mendelsohn	The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.	201
Deborah Moggach	I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.	201
James Cash Penney	The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.	201
Roma Downey	Mary and Jesus had this extraordinary relationship between them. What a teacher Mary is, really. It is the ultimate trusting; that she had to trust God, that she was so privileged to be the mother of the Savior, that she had to stand there as a mother and watch her son being murdered and trust that that is what he came to do.	201
Clay Aiken	I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.	201
Jacqueline Bisset	A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.	201
Max Beerbohm	As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.	201
Conor Oberst	I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.	202
Tim Gunn	I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.	202
Chris Christie	I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.	202
Miranda Cosgrove	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.	202
Meg Cabot	I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!	202
Woodrow Wilson	I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.	203
Francis Ford Coppola	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.	203
Robert Winston	I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.	203
Shimon Peres	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.	203
Adora Svitak	Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'	203
Bill Cosby	When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.	204
Eddie Van Halen	I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.	204
Harlan Coben	Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.	204
Henny Youngman	A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.	204
Louis Farrakhan	They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.	204
Marlo Thomas	I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.	204
Jessica Valenti	I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.	204
Gilbert K. Chesterton	A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.	205
Jamie Lee Curtis	I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.	205
Evo Morales	I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.	205
William Glasser	We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.	205
Dominic Monaghan	My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.	205
Jeb Bush	Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.	205
Kirsten Dunst	A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.	206
Tony Dungy	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.	206
Sonny Bill Williams	If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?	206
Kevin Mitnick	The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.	207
Big Sean	When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.	207
Edmund White	In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.	207
F. Sionil Jose	I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.	207
John Madden	I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.	207
Kim Cattrall	My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.	207
Misty Copeland	Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. I would love to choreograph and dance around.	207
Wes Craven	I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.	207
Dakota Fanning	I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.	207
Rhys Ifans	I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.	207
Mark Zandi	In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.	207
Chinua Achebe	My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.	208
Mikhail Gorbachev	America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.	208
Walter Dean Myers	I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.	208
Beverly Cleary	When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.	208
Annie Leibovitz	I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.	209
Ezra Taft Benson	Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.	209
Rick Riordan	I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.	209
Xun Kuang	When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.	209
Joanne Harris	I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.	209
Harry S Truman	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.	210
John Wooden	I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.	210
Richard P. Feynman	The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.	210
Dylan Moran	I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.	210
Donna Shalala	We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.	210
Lewis B. Smedes	In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.	211
Rick Riordan	I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.	211
Thomas Carlyle	What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.	211
William Hazlitt	Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.	211
Jacqueline Bisset	I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.	211
Leo Buscaglia	I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.	212
Malala Yousafzai	I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.	212
Steven Wright	I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am.	212
Bono	Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.	212
Baltasar Gracian	Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.	212
Herschel Walker	I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.	212
Jack Canfield	I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.	212
Joni Mitchell	I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.	212
Mike Nichols	My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.	212
John Mellencamp	Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.	212
William Glasser	In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.	213
Jean Rostand	It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.	213
Elie Wiesel	I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.	215
Jonathan Kozol	In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.	215
Mark Ruffalo	I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.	215
Wendy Kopp	If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.	215
Amy Lee	I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.	215
Confucius	If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.	217
George Osborne	I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.	217
Leo Buscaglia	I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.	218
Haruki Murakami	I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.	218
Rudolf Steiner	You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to imitate has been transformed into a receptivity based on a natural and uncontested relationship of authority, and you must take this into account in the broadest possible sense.	218
Iyanla Vanzant	You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.	219
Ben Affleck	I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.	219
Charles Stanley	You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.	219
Nathan Fillion	I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.	219
Katey Sagal	Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.	220
Liam Neeson	I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.	220
Wendy Kopp	We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.	220
Jonathan Sacks	If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.	220
Chrissy Teigen	I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.	221
George Foreman	I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'	221
Gordon Ramsay	I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.	221
James D. Watson	My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.	221
Nathan Fillion	I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.	222
Rick Riordan	As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'	222
Roz Chast	I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.	222
Danica McKellar	Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.	222
Leonardo DiCaprio	I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if there were ten minutes to lunch, and the teacher was done with the lesson, he'd say, 'Okay, Leo, get up there and do something.'	223
Rita Ora	I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.	223
Suze Orman	Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.	223
Alton Brown	I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.	224
Hugh Grant	My mother was a teacher.	224
Sloane Crosley	My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.	224
Temple Grandin	Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.	225
Woody Allen	I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.	226
Elbert Hubbard	The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.	302
Rick Riordan	I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.	302
Nelson Mandela	On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.	303
Malala Yousafzai	In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.	303
Soren Kierkegaard	Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.	303
Kevin Systrom	Back in the day, I actually studied photography in Florence for a few months, and my photography teacher took away my digital camera and said, 'No, use this - it's analog and it's square.' It was a Holga camera, a very cheap $3 or $4 plastic camera. And that's what inspired 'Instagram'.	303
Yoko Ono	Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.	303
Pope Francis	I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.	305
Al Franken	My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'	305
Jack Canfield	I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.	305
Max von Sydow	My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.	305
Gore Vidal	'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.	306
Brigitte Bardot	Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.	306
Gordon Ramsay	My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.	306
Jeff Bridges	My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.	306
Justin Trudeau	I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.	306
Elliott Abrams	I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.	307
Warren Buffett	The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.	308
Gertrude Stein	I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.	308
Paul Hollywood	Before I was ever a baker, I was a teacher. Or, at least, that is what I thought I was going to be. After O-levels, I went to art school in Wallasey on the Wirral, and my mate Cavan and I did a teacher training course.	308
W. E. B. Du Bois	For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.	309
Dave Grohl	My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.	309
Imelda May	At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.	310
Tony Dungy	My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.	310
Eli Broad	School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.	311
Miranda Hart	About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do.	311
Mahatma Gandhi	Those who know how to think need no teachers.	312
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau	I do remember a teacher telling me when I was about ten that I was really good at acting. I was so proud, even though I am sure he said that to all of us in the class.	312
Sharon Salzberg	I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.	312
Juliette Binoche	I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.	312
Helen Keller	What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.	313
Margaret Cho	I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'	314
Peter Capaldi	Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.	314
Chelsea Clinton	I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.	314
Billy Graham	I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.	315
Neil deGrasse Tyson	I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.	315
Pete Hamill	As a master of graphic creation, as teacher, historian, and roving ambassador of comics, Jerry Robinson has ensured that future generations of talented kids will continue to imagine and then put marks on paper.	315
Christie Brinkley	My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.	315
Sharon Salzberg	I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.	316
Timothy Noah	Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.	316
Walt Whitman	He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.	317
Gus Van Sant	My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.	317
Herbie Hancock	Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.	317
Mickey Rourke	Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.	317
Robert Frost	There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.	318
Caitlyn Jenner	In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!	318
Peter Thiel	Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.	318
Justin Timberlake	'Friends With Benefits': it feels like a two-hander to me, but it is a big movie, and this is the first straightforward male I've been able to play. I would describe my character in 'The Social Network' as a kind of sociopath. I would describe my character in 'Bad Teacher' as... just a weirdo. But this is a male's male.	318
Herbert Hoover	There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.	319
Ruth Rendell	I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.	319
Joseph B. Wirthlin	We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.	320
Kurt Vonnegut	I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.	321
Maria Montessori	Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.	321
Hugo Chavez	Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.	322
Yotam Ottolenghi	I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.	323
Bill Gates	The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'	324
Elbert Hubbard	The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.	324
Anton du Beke	My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.	325
Bill O'Reilly	My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.	326
Channing Tatum	I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger.	326
J. K. Simmons	I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.	326
Debbie Ford	You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.	401
Gretchen Rubin	They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.	401
Monica Johnson	There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the humble Teacher, Jesus Christ.	401
Khalil Gibran	The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.	402
Sylvester Stallone	When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.	402
Nick Cave	My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.	403
J. K. Simmons	I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.	404
Peter Dinklage	My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.	405
John Wooden	I'm glad I was a teacher.	406
John Niven	There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.	406
Dennis Quaid	I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.	407
Mira Nair	I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.	407
Kim Kardashian	I wanted to be a teacher.	409
John Lasseter	My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.	409
Beth Ditto	A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'	410
Kate Christensen	David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.	410
John Krasinski	I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.	411
Ezra Taft Benson	Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.	412
Lewis Black	My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.	412
Matthew McConaughey	A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.	413
Vin Diesel	I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.	413
Bill Gates	Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.	415
Robert Green Ingersoll	When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.	416
Nancy Gibbs	Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.	417
Joyce Carol Oates	As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.	417
Carrie Underwood	The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.	418
Alice Walker	Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.	419
Michelle Yeoh	I had an amazing teacher, who was Burmese, and she was living in Paris at the time, and she is one of very few who doesn't actually receive a credit in the film because she still has family over there.	421
P. J. O'Rourke	Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.	422
Aisha Tyler	For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.	422
Rudolf Steiner	The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.	422
Albert Einstein	Love is a better teacher than duty.	423
Rudolf Steiner	Above all, we must be conscious of the primary pedagogical task, namely that we must first make something of ourselves so that a living inner spiritual relationship exists between the teacher and the children.	423
Kevin Mitnick	I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.	425
Gretchen Rubin	Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.	501
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	A teacher should have a creative mind.	502
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.	502
Karl Lagerfeld	I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.	502
Albert Camus	After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.	504
Joshua Bell	My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.	509
Christian Louboutin	I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.	510
Kevin Spacey	I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.	510
Chris Pine	In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.	511
Ziggy Marley	Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.	513
Camille Paglia	I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.	519
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.	601
Anne Wojcicki	As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'	603
Al Franken	My daughter became a teacher right out of college.	604
Nicolas Cage	You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.	605
Shakira	I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.	609
Joss Whedon	My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.	614
Pierce Brosnan	I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.	615
Joss Whedon	I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.	616
Oscar Wilde	Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.	619
H. L. Mencken	A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.	621
P. J. O'Rourke	The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.	626
Elizabeth Warren	I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity!	703
Noam Chomsky	If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.	718
Joseph B. Wirthlin	Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.	721
Chuck Palahniuk	My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.	724
Donald Trump	What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.	819
Maya Angelou	I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.	821
Bill Gates	The best teacher is very interactive.	823
Rush Limbaugh	I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.	1026

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