Teach Quotes - Page 12

• In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.

  Hassan Blasim

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Let`s teach those people that when they go to work, they get skills, they meet people, they get opportunities, they get to climb the ladder, they get much better off than the person who`s just sitting at home receiving those things.

  Benjamin Carson

  Home, Opportunity, Skills

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

  Juliana Spahr

  Matter, Program, Form

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It uses some experimental techniques but in the end, I would not say that it is experimental. I'm not sure why. I do a lot of writing on my own, and I have always just written this way.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Writing, Firsts, Technique

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.

  Norman Lock

  Writing, Views, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene?

  Edan Lepucki

  Writing, Thinking, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll let you write YA or fantasy or what-have-you is just absurd, but we do, because the presumption is that they're closed to that sort of thing. You're offering an MFA in creative writing? Teach people how to write well, worry about that part, let the writers come up with the stories.

  Tod Goldberg

  Reading, Writing, Offering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Issues, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others.

  Mary J. Miller

  Crafts, Want, Able

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I also liked it when professors assigned us stories that they love. In general, I liked workshops more when they were more than just a workshop, when the professor took the time to actually guide us as young writers and teach us things it took them a long time to figure out on their own. I could probably write ten pages on this question.

  Mary J. Miller

  Writing, Long, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

  Dean Wareham

  Philosophy, Teaching, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former self, who was even more dense. I think you should teach whatever you want, Brian! That's the point of books like White Girls, to help free our thoughts!

  Hilton Als

  Girl, Philosophy, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a friend who teaches yoga (or is it pilates?), and she said that I don't seem to live in the moment. And I said, "Exactly!" I'd go nuts if I lived in the moment.

  Peter Orner

  Yoga, Nuts, Live In The Moment

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone and everything that shows up in the world of form in this universe originates not from a particle, as quantum physics teaches us, but from an energy field. That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness. It looks a certain way, sounds a certain way, and feels a certain way. I try to stay in harmony with what I believe it sounds and feels like.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Soul, Trying

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?" The "Where do I come from?" question, which I think I largely am answering now, is about what quantum physics teaches us. If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Parent, Trying

  "Interview With New Age Retailer". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, www.drwaynedyer.com. November, 2005.

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• I feel like every job teaches us something...

  Doreen Virtue

  Jobs, Feels

  Interview with Lindsay McGinty, www.fourcornersmagazine.com. December 21, 2010.

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• You could have a kid that is going to get in trouble a little bit, and you can teach them as much as you can, and hopefully they'll go the right way.

  Ginuwine

  Kids, Littles, Way

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion.

  Wayne Flynt

  Teacher, School, Icons

  "Harper Lee Remembered As Reclusive". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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• Now if you not only support them through that pregnancy, but now provide childcare for them so they can go back to school and get their GED or their associate's degree or bachelor's degree or their master's degree, learn how to take care of themselves, teach their baby how to take care of themselves so that you break the cycle of the dependency.

  Benjamin Carson

  Baby, Pregnancy, School

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.

  George Pattison

  Letting Go, Goal, Waiting

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Shake It Up definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

  Zendaya

  Dream, Kids, Goal

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Unlike many people today, Jesus did not teach that all religions in the world are simply different paths up the same mountain of truth that leads to God. Jesus could not have been more clear: he offers the only way to heaven.

  Robert Jeffress

  Jesus, People, Heaven

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share one common characteristic: they teach that the way to be reconciled to God is through works and rituals.

  Robert Jeffress

  Different, Way, Common

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

  Robert Jeffress

  Grace, Way, Christianity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call "love consciousness." This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans.

  Isha Judd

  Joy, Consciousness, Places Of Peace

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