Quotes About Drill Sergeants

#1. What? She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

Eileen Wilks

#2. Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

John Green

#3. This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.

Lee Gutkind

#4. A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

John D. Voelker

#5. If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

T.K. Naliaka

#6. You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

Julie Ann Dawson

#7. I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.

Harry S. Truman

#8. Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Jonathan Kozol

#9. When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of others. But as you get older, you start to build confidence.

Ivanka Trump