Top 55 Instructor Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Instructor Quotes from famous people such as Jon Oringer, Publilius Syrus, Rick Bayless, Katie Porter, John Forbes Nash, Jr., and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Jon Oringer
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Publilius Syrus
I did a show a long, long time ago called ‘Cooking Mexican’. It was a studio show as opposed to on-location like the one I do now. Before my first show, I was a cooking instructor, and I did a whole lot of classes for home cooks about Mexican food.
Rick Bayless
Yeah, I was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. My parents lived in a little town called Eagle Grove. My mom taught high school and my dad was an instructor at the community college.
Katie Porter
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a ‘C.L.E. Moore Instructor.’ I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
They’re my instructors, and every parent will understand that.
Jeffrey Tambor
As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.
Ahmed Zewail
The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he’s after.
R. Lee Ermey
The word ‘aerobics’ came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it Jumping up and down.
Rita Rudner
I relate with military families and Gold Star families. Gold Star families are families where somebody didn’t come home. My father died in 1949. He was a flight instructor in the Army Air Corp.
Joe Walsh
An instructor once told me that when there’s resistence in your body, it’s only because of the resistence in your mind. It’s about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.
Lisa Bonet
My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don’t know if that’s ever gonna change.
Dennis Crowley
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Louis Nizer
I experienced a lot of discrimination in the military. One commander told me that if my time of the month got in the way of my job, he would fire me. An instructor in pilot training continually failed me for subjective things, like judgment and situational awareness–I couldn’t get him to tell me what I was doing wrong.
MJ Hegar
Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‘first alarm clock’ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.
Jocko Willink
Golf is really tricky. I feel like you either have to be a broadcaster, or a professional golfer or a golf instructor. If you’re not one of those things you don’t really fit in the game.
Paige Spiranac
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, ’tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform’d what is the true Way to Happiness.
Mary Astell
The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
William Godwin
Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.
Treat Williams
Some golf instructors get overly technical and teach the mechanics of the ideal swing. That approach didn’t work for me. So, I found a pro that didn’t insist that I learn Tiger’s swing. He accepted my physical limitations and improved my game by focusing on the minimal golf skills that I have.
Daniel Negreanu
These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump’s real estate tips and strategies, taught by his handpicked instructors.
Eric Schneiderman
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey
I’m a qualified Professional Association of Diving Instructors Divemaster.
David Jason
I was a dance instructor and during a musical show Ekta Ma’am had spotted me. I got a call from her then and without any audition, I was directly called for the screen test.
Radhika Madan
There are quite some interesting roles. Just take my career for instance. I played a vivacious aerobics instructor in Porki.’ In my Telugu debut Bava,’ I played a lively girl from a village. In Udayan,’ my Tamil debut, I played a soft spoken Brahmin girl.
Pranitha Subhash
When I was much younger, my siblings and I would routinely tune in to watch ‘Bill Nye the Science Guy’ on PBS. He was a fascinating instructor bent on helping kids achieve a basic understanding of science. When he engaged in politics, it was only very briefly if at all.
Ben Domenech
I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I’m afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
Geddy Lee
There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor – all subtly different personas.
Charlie Brooker
Being who I was, I had the best swimming instructor – Duke Kahanamoku – the year after he won the Olympics.
Jackie Coogan
My mother took me to every kind of dance instructor.
Julie Newmar
My fitness instructor helped me with strength training, muscle building, and toning.
Karan Patel
When it comes to choreography practice, the rest of the

When it comes to choreography practice, the rest of the five members learn from the dance instructor while Rap Monster and I are excluded from the group and end up learning the moves in the corner.
Jin
If you talk to somebody else, they can say whatever they want about you, but I’m pretty secure with what I’ve done and my fights. Win or lose, it’s all experience, and it shapes the person you are and the instructor you are.
Matt Serra
Sarasota in 1974 was a city of 46,459 people, the 73rd-largest market in the country and sixth-largest in Florida, according to Arbitron Ratings. To supplement my meager salary, I was a bartender at Big Daddy’s on St. Armand’s Circle and a sailing instructor at nearby Lido Beach.
Craig Sager
I love working out in groups – I love the community of it and the energy, and I love great instructors who inspire you and make you sweat!
Vanessa Williams
My dad’s a surfer-psychologist, and my mother’s an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.
Vinessa Shaw
I’ve got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor – and he was good.
David Haye
I got introduced to yoga in drama school. It’s now a mainstay in my life, ever since I got instructor certification at a teacher-training intensive. I even occasionally guide an intimate class of friends and family, but mostly the training was to serve and deepen my own practice.
Stana Katic
The thing I always tell my writing students – I’m not a full-time instructor, by any means, but periodically I’ve taught writing students – what I always tell them is that the most important thing in narrative nonfiction is that you not only have to have all the research; you have to have about 100% more than you need.
Erik Larson
The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.
Edwin Meese
It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver’s test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.
Jane Smiley
My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.
Cecily Strong
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Angelina Grimke
I’m a qualified swimming instructor.
Joe Lycett
I was a children’s yoga instructor in high school, which was a lot of fun but hard work. I remember once trying to teach 13 three year olds how to do tree pose… not so easy.
Rebecca Serle
My parents split up when I was nine years old, and I started taking karate lessons at that point. I was very dedicated to my karate, and I looked up to my karate instructor kind of like a second father.
Adam Cole
I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.
Ryoji Noyori
I don’t have a fixed fitness regime, as everything depends on my work schedule and my fitness instructor. But I make sure that I work out 365 days a year for at least one and a half hours, no matter what.
Prosenjit Chatterjee
I’m still learning about my swing more. I continue to learn, with the help of my hitting instructors.
Cody Bellinger