Teach Quotes

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!

One of my missions was to teach.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol,' but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.