Top 100 I Teach Quotes
#1. Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.
Louise Brown
#2. Like everything else I teach in my coaching, staying in shape for me is about the little actions and changes in lifestyle that have a huge effect over time.
Matthew Hussey
#3. The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new idea, we tend to slide into our own reality distortion field to convince ourselves and others. And that's not healthy.
Steve Blank
#4. The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.
Eric Ludy
#5. I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn
Robert Frost
#6. Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach'rous shore.
Horace
#7. Whenever I teach you always learn something. Some of the greatest things you learn, aren't always in books.
- Mr. Bucon
Brooke Alexander
#8. We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.
Ron Ben-Israel
#9. In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.
Douglas Wilder
#10. I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.
Adam Hamilton
#11. I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#12. I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.
Frederick Lenz
#13. I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.
George M. Gilbert
#14. I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!
Paul Schrader
#15. I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
Della Reese
#16. Focus on the positives is what I teach my kids. The rest takes care of itself.
Dan Henderson
#17. I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.
Eckhart Tolle
#18. Not only can I teach you math, I can teach you math in bed, Jordan. You know, I'll add the bed, you subtract the clothes, you divide the legs, and I'll multiply
Miranda Kenneally
#19. I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'
Jimmy Carter
#20. I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
Bill Ayers
#22. What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call "love consciousness." This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans.
Isha Judd
#23. Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it's show time and you're at your best.
Robin S. Sharma
#24. I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their drafting by hand to remind them that there is this physical connection between the two.
Jennifer Tipton
#25. Every time I teach a class, I discover I don't know something.
Clint Smith
#26. Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.
Bruce Molsky
#28. I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch ... because most of my work crosses boundaries.
Michael Porter
#29. Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#30. When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.
Tom Barbash
#31. As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
Parker J. Palmer
#32. I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
John Taylor Gatto
#33. A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.
Martin Luther
#34. Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the University of Notre Dame.
Stanley Hauerwas
#36. I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
Tobias Wolff
#37. 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.
Emeril Lagasse
#38. I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.
Kristine Gasbarre
#39. Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
W.G. Sebald
#40. The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.
Luke Ford
#41. I teach that all men are mad.
Horace
#42. Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.
David Dinkins
#43. I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.
Susan Orlean
#44. The kiddos next to me were starting to sob, too. "Man up. I mean Devil up, all of you," I snapped. "Did I teach you to sympathize this way? What's wrong with you?
Cameron Jace
#45. I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance ... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.
Kris Jenner
#46. My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. I teach in a university, and I think about where's the place in that kind of educational institution for embodied knowledge? And how do we cultivate that? And how do we trust it? But
Krista Tippett
#48. If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write.
Richard B. Knight
#49. I teach that people should watch less TV. I don't care what else they're doing! The average American's watching anywhere from three to six hours a day. If you watch six hours of TV a day, that's 15 years of your life!
Jack Canfield
#50. I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
Susan Orlean
#51. Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.
Angela Davis
#52. I am totally amazed at the spread of interest in meditation. When I first came back from studying in India in 1974, I would be asked in social situations what I did. When I replied, "I teach meditation" they would frequently look at me as though to say "That is weird," and sort of sidle away.
Sharon Salzberg
#53. Alex Riley does a lot of things for me. I teach him so many things.
The Miz
#54. I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.
James Fox
#55. I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#56. I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.
Pearl S. Buck
#57. I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.
Dan Meyer
#58. Behold, I teach you the Overman! He is that lightning, he is that madness!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. Quitters never win and winners never quit. This is what I teach my students on a daily basis. I encourage my students to never give up.
Pamela G. Bowers
#60. The more I teach, the more I realize that I know nothing.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
Tobias Wolff
#62. Don't mess with Teresa. If I teach you nothing else in life, it's that. Don't mess with Teresa.
James Dashner
#64. I am a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Aren't we all? I teach meditation to many different types of people, you mentioned celebrities. I also teach meditation to many people who are not famous, but are, in my eyes, very important.
Frederick Lenz
#65. Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#66. Arisa: "You bastard! Why don't I teach you a lesson!"
Kyo: "I'd like to see you try, bitch!"
Yuki: "I have a winning hand."
Tohru: "I knew you'd be good at this.
Natsuki Takaya
#67. I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
BeBe Winans
#68. With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.
Stephen Boss
#69. When I ask the classes I teach, "How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's?" almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, "So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you?
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#70. I teach my students that you can't be a journalist if you are going to be judgmental. If you have a judgmental nuance as you pose a question, people will close down.
Robert S. Boynton
#71. I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.
Rajneesh
#72. I teach at Caltech and oversee a research laboratory there. In general, I find that the majority of young people are excited by the prospects of research, but they soon discover that in the current market, many doctorate-level scientists are holding temporary positions or are unemployed.
Ahmed Zewail
#73. The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, "I'm so stressed out. I could use some of that!" A response I also sometimes hear, which amuses me a lot is, "My partner should really meet you!"
Sharon Salzberg
#74. I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep studying. I read books because I still want to study. I don't want to stop.
Philippe Falardeau
#75. When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.
George Lois
#76. I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it's seditious. But it's peaceful sedition.
Bill Mollison
#77. There is a palpable relief when I teach the perspective of nobility, of training in compassion, of non-religious ways to transform suffering and nurture our sacred connection to life.
Jack Kornfield
#78. For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows ... the voice follows everything about you ... who you are.'
Betty Buckley
#79. Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
Bear Bryant
#80. I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
Oscar Hijuelos
#81. I aspire to be of the leisure class, therefore, I go to class. Because I am of the working class, needs must, I teach class, where it is to be learned, I have no class.
M. Alexander Shipley
#82. When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
John Ortberg
#83. I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.
Robert Kiyosaki
#84. I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.
Eddie George
#85. One of the things I'm best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I've proven it to myself, I teach it to others.
Tony Robbins
#86. I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.
Josh Pais
#87. The way I teach people to sing ... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.
Margaret Whiting
#88. Economists like to strike the pose of a scientist. I know, because I often do it myself. When I teach undergraduates, I very consciously describe the field of economics as a science, so no student would start the course thinking he was embarking on some squishy academic endeavor.'1
Ha-Joon Chang
#89. Human society: it is an attempt - so I teach - a long seeking: it seeketh however the ruler! - An attempt, my brethren! And NO "contract"! Destroy, I pray you, destroy that word of the soft-hearted and half-and-half!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.
Pam Houston
#91. I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
Toby Jones
#92. I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.
Joel Osteen
#93. When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#94. Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world.
Kim Edwards
#96. I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
Edgar Meyer
#97. The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. One must learn to love oneself- thus do I teach- with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#100. I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
Tananarive Due
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