Flexible Teacher Quotes

#1. It just happened,

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#2. Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

John Chrysostom

#3. In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

Edward Bennett Williams

#4. It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

Shirley Horn

#5. You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.'
'I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Jeanine Basinger

#7. Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.

Simone Elkeles

#8. What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.

Robert Thurman

#10. My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.

Sakip Sabanci

#11. Teaching resurrects dead words so they live again.

Eugene H. Peterson

#12. My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.

Josh Duhamel

#13. Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#14. I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

Loretta Young

#15. You get no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball to drop into the cup that counts.

Laurie Auchterlonie

#16. My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.

Angus Buchan

#18. We are all sinners who have been saved by Grace. We have not been saved from sinning, but we have been redeemed despite it".

~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods