Patient Teacher Quotes

#1. So, how's school? How's everything going?"
"Can Gio hear us?"
... "Yes"
"Oh, well then, it's going magnificently. I'm so fortunate to have a knowledgeable and patient teacher like my uncle, who is imparting his centuries of wisdom into my eager young mind.

Elizabeth Hunter

#2. sake of exactness

Victor Hugo

#3. People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

David Bowie

#4. One day that ego of yours'll kill you. That's all it is, you know. You pretend it's selfless, you pretend to be the great teacher, the wise and patient Armand Gamache, but you and I both know it's ego. Pride. Be careful, my friend. She's dangerous. You've said so yourself.

Louise Penny

#5. I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#6. Money has never been an issue with me. I will make and continue to make plenty of money.

MC Hammer

#7. You may encounter unexpected circumstance. Don't be discouraged. God is greater than any condition.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. He very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.

Andrew Saul

#9. It was not the cold that made you want to rush out as soon as you'd jumped in; it was the unmeasured depth - our fear of what was on the bottom, and how far below us the bottom was.

John Irving

#10. My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

Yo-Yo Ma

#11. Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

Frederick Lenz

#12. For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything.

Harold Bloom

#13. All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Alfred North Whitehead

#14. God, life changes faster than you think.

Amy Tan

#15. Today's readers can be roughly divided into two groups, those who accept the fantasy villains of childhood, as in the James Bond stories and Arnold Schwarzenegger films, and those who insist on credibility.

Sol Stein

#16. We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

Brennan Manning

#17. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Carl Sagan

#18. Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video.

David Cronenberg

#20. Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

Billy Graham

#21. Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.

Horace Fletcher

#22. When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

Joe Torre

#23. This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#24. Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

Susane Colasanti