Teach Quotes

My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things.

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

I used to teach dance lessons.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'