Teach Quotes - Page 40

• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Disappointment, Irritation

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

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• What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Children, Mean

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• In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• to teach without zest is a crime.

  Virginia Woolf

  Zest, Crime

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• There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Kindness, Soul

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• Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wall, Yelling, Long

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

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• When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Character, Want Something

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

  John Green

  Faces, Energy, South Carolina

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Queens, Kings, Pain

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Religion, Lessons

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• There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Sleep, Men

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• Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

  Julio Cortazar

  Reality, Skills, Stories

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• Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, May, Hours

  "Mansfield Park".

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• At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

  Andre Breton

  Beautiful, Opposites, Trials

  Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (1997). “Anthology of Black Humor”, p.335, City Lights Books

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• Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

  Orson Scott Card

  Evil, Trying, Maps

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.142, Macmillan

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• You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

  Orson Scott Card

  World, Littles, Helping

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.410, Macmillan

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• Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

  Sherman Alexie

  Years, Sky, Parent

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

  Salvador Dali

  Wrinkles, Hair, Iron

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

  Henry Miller

  School, Order, Purpose

  Henry Miller (2007). “Plexus: The Rosy Crucifixion II”, p.599, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

  Mortimer Adler

  Book, World, Information

  "How to Read a Book".

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• There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Stupid, Heart

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

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• Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Rising Up

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• There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

  Randy Pausch

  Children, Self Esteem, Hard Work

  "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

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• If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Baby, Cutting, Lessons

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.54, Penguin

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