Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.
They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
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.
I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
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 relati...
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
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.
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.
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
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.
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
Describing Robert Bunsen: As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.
