Teach Quotes - Page 28

• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

  William James

  Education, Philosophical, Carpe Diem

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• A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Memories, School, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Humble, Men

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• The scars of others should teach us caution.

  St. Jerome

  Love, Teaching, Heart

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.222, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, Done

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.5

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• The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Men, Religion

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• Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

  Jay-Z

  Teenager, Rap, Home

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• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov

  Responsibility, Play, Chess

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Nature, Cat, Garden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  Jack Kerouac

  Tunes, Maestro

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.161, Penguin

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• We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Art, Failure

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• The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

  Charles Kettering

  Jobs, Work, Failure

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• I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Children, My Children

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• Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Sports, Character

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 02, 2010

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• I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

  Larry King

  Good Morning, Good Day, Effective Listening

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• Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

  Stephen King

  Book, Lessons, Picks

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Office, Decision, Intellectual

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• We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Money, Business

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• So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Marine, Causes, Purpose

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• Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

  Allen Klein

  Gratitude, Demise, Situation

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• I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Teacher, Retirement

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• I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, Years

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dream, Couple, Years

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• My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Teacher, Teaching, Ambition

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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