My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity – great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.
Because I don’t have to be careful of people’s feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I’m teaching writing.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
They don’t really teach you how to be famous and a lot of people don’t realise that this game comes with a lot of traps. So I’m just looking after myself, looking after my health and making sure I don’t fall into those traps.
What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won’t be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.
My diabetes is such a central part of my life… it did teach me discipline… it also taught me about moderation… I’ve trained myself to be super-vigilant… because I feel better when I am in control.
I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, ‘Don’t be afraid.’ People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.
As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.
I do like the thrill of risk-taking, but it’s always carefully calculated. I have done many high risk undertakings, but I have always measured the stakes. Not feeding the fear nor the doubt. But I also believe that you need to fuel passion in whatever you do. This is what I am trying to teach my children today.
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra… The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds – but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn’t say, ‘My God, that guy can play.’ It’d probably sound more like Jack Benny.
People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Well you can’t teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can’t change their DNA.
My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Dad always enjoyed sports, and he decided to join a Guadalajara gym to learn how to box. What he didn’t realize was that they didn’t teach boxing at that particular gym – they taught ‘lucha libre.’
People think that coaches are always right, but it’s difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you’re not like anybody else.
We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
I wouldn’t call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn’t teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint – he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can’t learn what’s right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Go see ‘Wonder.’ It’s really fun, and it will teach you a lot.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
The years teach much which the days never know.
I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.
Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It’s about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we’re educated.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it’s all about responding to the lines.
What I’ve always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools – you know, teach children.
I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that – which is inside all of us – then all of a sudden, they’ve opened up a door of endless resources.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge – not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.
I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
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.
You can’t teach others if you are living the same way.
I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack’s timing, but I don’t think you can teach timing. It’s something you hear in your head.
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
The main thing in making your own music is that it’s an expression of someone’s personality and being. That’s what people want to hear, and you can’t really teach that – that’s just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.
I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.
When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.
An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.
Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don’t understand it.
I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that’s just how it was for me. I know that’s true for a lot of budding musicians out there – that’s the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it’s a great way to teach yourself.
