Teach Quotes

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

When I teach people, I marry them.

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.