Instructors Quotes

• Practice is the best of all instructors.

  Publilius Syrus

  Perseverance, Teaching, School

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 439, 1856.

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• Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

  Choi Hong Hi

  Art, Pain, Class

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• Mistakes are their own instructors

  Horace

  Mistake

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• Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

  Louis Nizer

  Reading, Book, Hands

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• The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

  Rita Rudner

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

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• The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

  R. Lee Ermey

  News, Motivated, Drills

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

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• Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Fifteen, Seven Days, Week

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

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• An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

  Bruce Lee

  Students, Advantage, Should

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.296, Tuttle Publishing

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

  Edmund Burke

  Adversity, Knows, Severe

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• I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, School, Knowledge

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• I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

  Adrian Belew

  Play, Band, Might

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• So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Tuesday

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

  Edmund Burke

  Adversity, Skills, Challenges

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• Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.15

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• We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

  Mary Astell

  Needs, Way, Fit

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.129, Broadview Press

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• A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Age, Hundred

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

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• I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

  Geddy Lee

  Practice, Piano, Discipline

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• I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Fall, Half Time, Princeton

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• Islam is not about “we’re better than you”. Rather it is about “let me show you something that is better for you

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Religious, Islamic

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• I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

  Angelina Grimke

  Children, Employment, Occupation

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• Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Tools, Intimidation, Drills

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• Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Success, Faith

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.126, Tuttle Publishing

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• Spirituality is impacted not only by remembrance but by diet, stress, sleeping and eating habits among other things. Take care of yourself.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Stress

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Nov 14, 2013

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• Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

  Laozi

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• You know what the Quran teaches me? The Quran teaches me that an incredibly wealthy man can be a failure (Firaun) and a homeless man can be successful (Prophet Ibrahim). It teaches me that success has nothing to do with wealth and failure has nothing to do with poverty.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Success, Religious

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Oct 02, 2014

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