What To Teach Quotes

Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.

Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?

I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

What I've learned over the last 6 or 7 years, I would love to teach people. I still have a lot to share with people and especially within the US.

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.

You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too.

I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

D'Artagnan is the youngest of the four, and they're like his big brothers. They bring him up and teach him the ways of what it's like to be a Musketeer, and he embraces it with open arms.

Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.

Teach us to number our days aright.

Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.