Quotes by Teachers - Page 3

The main reason I became a teacher is that I like being the first one to introduce kids to words and music and people and numbers and concepts and idea that they have never heard about or thought about before. I like being the first one to tell them about Long John Silver and negative numbers and Beethoven and alliteration and "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and similes and right angles and Ebenezer Scrooge. . . Just think about what you know today. You read. You write. You work with numbers. You solve problems. We take all these things for granted. But of course you haven't always read. You haven't always known how to write. You weren't born knowing how to subtract 199 from 600. Someone showed you. There was a moment when you moved from not knowing to knowing, from not understanding to understanding. That's why I became a teacher.
Phillip Done
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.
Idries Shah
If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
Oswald Chambers
Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.
Idries Shah
The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.
P.C. Cast
Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.
Wally Lamb
It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bills pile up. Then you think: "Well, I'm the sensitive type. I have to express myself." Do me a favor. Don't be so sensitive. Be tough. It will get you further along when you get rejected.Finally, you just do it because you happen to like it.
Natalie Goldberg
Teaching is different today. Teachers don’t just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we’re ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.
Tony Danza
Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.
Idries Shah
I just have to do the right thing, and recently I've realized that sometimes the right thing seems crazy to those who don't want change.
P.C. Cast
People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.
Idries Shah
I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim
P.C. Cast
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron
[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]
Steve Hagen
Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.
Idries Shah
Some one has defined a work of art as a “thing beautifully done.” I like it better if we cut away the adverb and preserve the word “done,” and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done.
Robert Henri
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
Natalie Goldberg
The call of God is a call according to the nature of God; where we go in obedience to that call depends entirely on the providential circumstances which God engineers, and is not of any moment. The danger is to fit the call of God into the idea of our own discernment and say, “God called me there.” If we say so and stick to it, then it is good-bye to the development of the life of God in us.
Oswald Chambers
And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.
Mariama Bâ
Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.
Idries Shah
You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
Idries Shah
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
Idries Shah
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
Clay Shirky
How do we get there? How did you get here, by the way?' [Will asked].He heard Halt's deep sigh and knew he'd done it again.'Do you ever,' the older Ranger said with great deliberation, 'manage to ask just one question at a time? Or does it always have to be multiple choice with you?'Will looked at him in surprise. 'Do I do that?' he asked. 'Are you sure?'Halt said nothing. He raised his hands in a 'See what I mean?' gesture...'Halt,' [Selethen said], 'I could be wrong, but I think you were just guilty of the same fault. I'm sure I heard you ask two questions just then.''Thank you for pointing that out, Lord Selethen,' Halt said with icy formality.
John Flanagan
The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.
Idries Shah
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.
Julia Cameron
The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.
Idries Shah
When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.
Idries Shah
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
Idries Shah
Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.
Idries Shah
At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered for My sake. Many of us awaken antagonism by our way of stating things; we have to distinguish between being persecuted for some notion of our own and being persecuted “for My sake.
Oswald Chambers
In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.
Idries Shah
A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.
Idries Shah
They're all true. They all could have happened.
Ellen Sussman
An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)
Idries Shah
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from hell. I am very hungry. I am incomplete. And none can tell when I may dine again. No man can give me any word but Wait, The puny light. I keep eyes pointed in; Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt Drag out to their last dregs and I resume On such legs as are left me, in such heart As I can manage, remember to go home, My taste will not have turned insensitive To honey and bread old purity could love.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.
Clay Shirky
A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.
Oliver Butterworth
among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
Idries Shah
That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.
Wally Lamb
Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.
Jack Gantos
If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
Ajahn Chah
At His door, what is the difference between Muslim and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.
Idries Shah
I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.
Wally Lamb
Satan’s inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin.
Tomichan Matheikal
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.
Idries Shah
As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practically everybody by the 'greed', that, they are 'alive', therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are 'conditions'. Gravelly Hill or any sort of situation for improvement, when the Earth was properly regarded as a 'garden tenement messuage orchard and if this is nostalgia let you take a breath of April showers let's us reason how is the dampness in your nasal passage -- but I have had lunch in this 'pasture' (B. Ellery to George Girdler Smith 'gentleman' 1799, for £150)overlooking 'the town' sitting there like the Memphite lord of all Creationwith my back -- with Dogtownover the Crown of gravelly hillIt is not bad to be pissed off
Charles Olson
History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
Tomichan Matheikal
They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.
Frank McCourt
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.
Idries Shah
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)
Teacher David McCullough
Zo, I'm not a damn pussy!'Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre-like, snorted sarcastically and then said, 'No, you're a damn human. Wait, that does make you a pussy!
P.C. Cast
Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
Natalie Goldberg
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
Idries Shah
The memory is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
Taylor Mali
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.
Idries Shah
If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.
Idries Shah
Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you’re free.
Natalie Goldberg
Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see "creator" as the literal term for "artist". I am suggesting you take the term "creator" quite literally. You are seeking to forge a creative alliance, artist-to-artist with the Great Creator. Accepting this concept can greatly expand your creative possibilities.
Julia Cameron