Quotes About Retiring From Teaching

#1. To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity. - Author: Michael Eisner

#2. I'll never retire as long as I live - that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own. - Author: Bel Kaufman

#3. Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am. - Author: Christina Stead

#4. [Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth? - Author: Chinua Achebe

#5. The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves.
- Lord Commander Mormont - Author: George R R Martin

#6. I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me. - Author: Waite Hoyt

#7. The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity. - Author: Demi Moore

#8. Sam glanced at him. "Feeling sorry for yourself, are you? I suppose you're allowed. I mean, look at how bloody awful your life is."
"Sarcasm doesn't become you," Griffin retorted. - Author: Kady Cross

#9. Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#10. When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover. - Author: Bruno Tonioli

#11. Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives. - Author: Alexandra Stoddard

#12. I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards. - Author: C.S. Lewis

#13. It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage. - Author: Dorothy L. Sayers