Teacher Quotes

• I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

  John Calipari

  Protector

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Art, Teaching, Play

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be coaxed out of them, it has nothing to do with the phases of the moon or even how they feel that day. They go on stage and start playing. Being creative is their job.

  John Kao

  Jobs, Creativity, Moon

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• I'm 67 years old now. I've had a lot of good teachers over the years; and they have been very, very different from one another. They all had passion for what they were doing, but their styles were unique to them as individuals.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Passion, Unique, Years

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the Geographic I was a teacher. Plus my parents were teachers and my brother and my grandparents. So it was the culture of our family to think about teaching, to talk about teaching, to talk about teachers.

  Sam Abell

  Brother, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands, what newspaper clipping, what word of hope from what teacher. I suppose the so-called faith in ourselves is the foundation of our talent, but I am sure these encouragements are the mortar that holds it together.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Encouragement, Artist, Hands

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• Any great teacher is a great student.

  T. D. Jakes

  Students, Great Teacher

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings
  and helps each individual find his uniqueness.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Helping, Individual, Humans

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• Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

  Madi Diaz

  Art, Important, Inspired

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Mean, Thinking About You, Beloved

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• There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, People, Offers

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.

  Todd Whitaker

  Matter, Being A Teacher, Hardest

  Todd Whitaker, Beth Whitaker (2014). “Teaching Matters: How to Keep Your Passion and Thrive in Today's Classroom”, p.8, Routledge

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• 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.

  Abdul Kalam

  Teaching, Character, People

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• When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

  David Morse

  School, Class, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.

  Maggie Smith

  Thinking, Saws, Serious

  "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, New York, Father

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Teaching, Teach, Offers

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• Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time.

  Robert Barry

  Jobs, Fall, Teaching

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Joe Wright was almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Stuck, Firm

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

  Mark Sheppard

  Jesus, Plato, Judgement

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• The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

  Mardy Grothe

  Answers, Best Teacher

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• Jesus has to be and become ever more the center of my life. It is not enough that Jesus is my teacher, my guide, my source of inspiration. It is not even enough that he is my companion on they journey, my friend and my brother. Jesus must become the heart of my heart, the fire of my life, the love of my soul, the bridegroom of my spirit. He must become my only thought, my only concern, my only desire.

  Henri Nouwen

  Brother, Jesus, Inspiration

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1992). “Jesus and Mary: Finding Our Sacred Center”

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• My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was.

  Jim Carrey

  Smart, Class, The End Of The Day

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• Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Children, School

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• Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  School, Medicine, People

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