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To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.
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A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.
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What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to ...
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For these two years I have been gravitating towards THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I compare it [the movement] to the Exodus stories. If no one had told the Exodus stories, it would n...
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This century will be called ROBERT G. INGERSOLL ![]()
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DON SCARDINO
KELLY JONES
They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO
Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories,... SHIRLEY TEMPLE I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ... WYNTON MARSALIS
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learnin... TOM HIDDLESTON After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist...
EMM GRYNER As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I di...
DAVID CALL
I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on ... SEBASTIAN COE
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I al... HUGH HEFNER
I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - w... BRIAN BLESSED God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also pers...
MARQUES HOUSTON I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford a...
ALEX PETTYFER I listen to Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Nat Cole, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles....
JAMES DARREN A lot of schools recruited me late because I played junior varsity my junior year. I went to a camp ...
HERBERT HILL She remembers so much and I have tapes of her telling stories about the old days. My family used to ...
CHARLENE JOHNSON I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
VANESSA MINNILLO I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
VANESSA LACHEY Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie,
BRIAN I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom...
BILLY PRESTON I would never recommend it. I have a six-year-old son who wants to be an actor (as well as a vet and...
DWAYNE HICKMAN
I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn no... JUSTIN TRUDEAU I ask all the kids to give me their schedule and I see as many as possible. I went to see Kristen Wr...
GARY BATTLE
I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I... HILARY SWANK
I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I... HILARY SWANK My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular th...
THOMAS STEINBECK He asked me, so of course I came. And it's also something I like to do. I've read a fair number of s...
KATHLEEN CHALFANT Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was ...
HAILEE STEINFELD
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. WOODY ALLEN
During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers ... ADAM RIESS Having this kind of spectrum of sound now, I listen to 'Is This It' and I see us as youngsters and I...
FABRIZIO MORETTI
I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you ... JOHN GREEN Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T...
CHARLES WESLEY I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful an...
RANSOM RIGGS After Year 12, I went to Vancouver for my gap year and met an agent who told me to lose 25 kg.
DACRE MONTGOMERY
Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools. JEREMY LONDON I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the in...
PETINA GAPPAH A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young wh...
EMILE CAPOUYA
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu... MARIA CALLAS
Windows 95 had its 20th anniversary last year, so we got our hands on an old system and showed it to... BENNY FINE There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course...
ALFRED MOLINA
So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist.... GAYLE FORMAN
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to,... J. K. ROWLING I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of c...
ANNE DUDLEY I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other peop...
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL I’ve got the word of an eight-year-old girl, an old fairytale I used to know, and a shred of faith...
EMORY R. FRIE When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never se...
FLORENCE HENDERSON
To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. SASHA AZEVEDO
Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say. CHINESE PROVERBS
If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. IGNACIO ESTRADA
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The gre... WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal cou...
DR. WILLIAM MENNINGER
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not forma...
ELLIOT EISNER I used to love Andre The Giant. I could sit around all day and listen to Andre stories. He was such ...
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the ... WALTER PAYTON
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. ... JAMES D. WATSON
She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy... PATRICIA BRIGGS I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a w...
THOMAS H. COOK I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through prop...
MICHAEL BENNET Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton...
DAVID BENTLEY HART I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it wa...
IMELDA MAY Not only is he as mentally acute as the average 77-year-old, he's as acute as the average 27-year-ol...
LYLE GRAMLEY
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to ... TWYLA THARP
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my ch... NADINE GORDIMER
Gene would listen to everyone. He'd listen to the little guy who no one else listen to. He was inclu... BILLIE JEAN KING
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell ... VALERIE BERTINELLI
I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and t... TOBY KEITH If we're not going to allow teachers to interfere with a disruptive 8-year-old, then we might as wel...
DICK HARPOOTLIAN If you made a movie about (evolutionary biologist Charles) Darwin now, it would be revolutionary. If...
SHEILA NEVINS What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ
'Alien' is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monst... RIDLEY SCOTT I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I wo...
MALORIE BLACKMAN To me God’s voice and inspiration is stronger, of greater importance and authority than that of an...
SIPPORAH JOSEPH
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd tak...
BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s... KATE DICAMILLO I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while ...
DIABLO CODY
For these two years I have been gravitating towards THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I compare it [the movement] to the Exodus stories. If no one had told the Exodus stories, it would n... CLAYBORNE CARSON
My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and h... PAUL PIERCE
I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and m... MARCIA GAY HARDEN
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and tea... RICHARD BACH
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen PHILIP WYLIE There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight...
DAMIAN LEWIS
This century will be called ROBERT G. INGERSOLL 
I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sens... ABRAHAM MASLOW
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by m... NADINE GORDIMER As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and ...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storyteller...
LESLIE MARMON SILKO There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories fr...
BRIAN DOYLE I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired m...
TONY DITERLIZZI
Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had g... TONY BENNETT I knew they would stop before me and I had to push to gain time on them, ... With seven laps to go I...
KIMI RAIKKONEN
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define... WILLIAM GLASSER An original beats a copy anyday. I never listen to those who try to tell me to be different than I a...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shame... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Edgar asked me, 'Do you know anything about John Lennon,' ... I said, 'I know everything about John ...
DON SCARDINO
Our opportunities to do good are our talents. 
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that w... 
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of ever... 
Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More th... 
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles
removed from their path by ... 
The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potentia... 
Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person be... 
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is ... 
None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civ... 
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, p... 
I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, wh... 
The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desir... 
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that?s the wa... 
I will tell each person what I have told others in the past 
Many veterans dream of being buried here. These grounds speak of dignity and respect, and the magnit... 
I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my j... 
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind. 
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. 
If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebo... 
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. 
I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. The... 
I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to w... 
To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get togethe... 
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the ... 