
Top 23 Teacher Criticism Quotes
#1. The only proof that it is like something to be you at this moment is the fact (obvious only to you) that it is like something to be you.
Sam Harris
#3. Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.
Robert Henri
#4. When I'm a teacher, I won't be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don't want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.
Susane Colasanti
#5. I was touring a lot ... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.
Chris Blackwell
#6. I don't believe in classes where students criticize each other's manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite. It's the blind leading the blind, and it can be dangerous. A teacher who tries to impose a way of writing on you can be dangerous, too.
Flannery O'Connor
#7. In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very 'gifted' improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
Malcolm Gladwell
#9. Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
#10. Please Say A Prayer For All Who are Broken Hearted And Grief In Despair. May They Find Peace In The Loving Arms Of God And Comfort In Our Prayers. May They Pray For Us When It's Our Turn To Need Help In Our Own Despair.
Timothy Pina
#11. I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person ... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
Barry Hannah
#12. Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
Samuel West
#13. I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
Jimi Hendrix
#14. So it has been, again and again throughout my life, as I form connections with people and then lose them to distance and time. I mourn those losses, even when I know my erstwhile friends are safe and happy among their own kin.
Marie Brennan
#15. Our labour preserves us from three great evils
weariness, vice, and want.
Voltaire
#16. Even one small thing can go right in a world so wrong ~ Mare Barrow
Victoria Aveyard
#17. Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ...
Winifred Holtby
#18. Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
R. H. Tawney
#19. The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
Charles J. Shields
#20. And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.
Mary Jo Salter
#21. There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.
Vironika Tugaleva
#22. Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.
Stephen Mitchell
#23. I've always been inspired by female performers and artists who really surround who they are around their voice. For me, it's always been about the voice. I wanna hear someone just sit by a piano, on a stool, and just sing - and that's it!
Lea Michele
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