Students Quotes

I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.

I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure.

My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.

I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love.

I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.

Then there are most of my students who don't know a whole lot about love. You don't know what fun love is. I will remain inaccessible to you until you learn how to love.

There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student, but not in the sense of physical proximity. The close students rotate a lot.

You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

I was a straight-A student, baby!

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere.

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong.