Tea Quotes
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.Saying Folk
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.Howard Crosby
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win - win basis.W. Edwards Deming
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.Lee Iacocca
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.Joseph Addison
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.Unknown
All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.Walter Savage Lando
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt
For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.Pink Floyd
Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.Pearl Buck
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.A Bartlett Giamatti
Favorite animal: steak.Fran Lebowitz
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.Biblical Prove
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
Our lives teach us who we are.Salman Rushdie
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.Elizabeth Drew
I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores.Thornton
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.Sylvia Ashton - Warner, Spinste
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.Raynor Schein
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Giovanni Ruffini
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.Unknown
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.Unknown
A full cup must be carried steadily.English Prove
You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.Clay P. Bedford
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.George Gordon Byron
History is philosophy teaching by examples.Henry St. John Bolingbroke
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.Hellen Kelle
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.James Truslow Adams
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.Natalie Clifford Barney
Good teaching is one - Fourth preparation and three - Fourths theater.Gail Godwin
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.Sophocles, Antigone
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.Mark Twain, Mark Twain In Eruption
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.Robert A. Heinlein
