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All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language, at whatever time. All have said, simply: Give up weak attractors for strong attractors. -- David Hawkins
Great teachers transcend ideology. -- Suzanne Fields
Suffering is one of life's great teachers. -- Bryant H. McGill
Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris. -- Danny Meyer
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. -- Maria Callas
I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me. -- Lyle Lovett
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools. -- Wendy Kopp
You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school. -- Eli Broad
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people. -- Daniel Berrigan
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. -- Condoleezza Rice
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. -- Maria Callas
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do. -- Betty Buckley
I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps. -- Michael Bennet
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally. -- David Call
Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes. -- Wendy Kopp
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas. -- Jennifer Carpenter
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded. -- Julia Roberts
We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher. -- Jesse Williams
True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches. -- Morgan Wootten
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way. -- Keith Stanfield
Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed. -- Daphne Koller
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Great teachers are usually a little crazy. -- Andy Rooney
Ye great teachers: listen to what you say! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. -- Charles Henry Fowler
My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way... -- Jeff Goldblum
I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers. -- Brian Lindstrom
Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God. -- Evelyn Underhill
The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers. -- Grant Teaff
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves. -- Todd Whitaker
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. -- Bill Gates
Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures. -- Andy Hargreaves
The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. -- William James
I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure. -- Estelle Morris
I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure. -- Estelle Morris
With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE. -- Leo Kottke
Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents. -- Melissa Breen
Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. -- Albert Einstein
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. -- C. S. Lewis
Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to. -- Taylor Mali
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. -- Florian Znaniecki
Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. -- Ashok Kallarakkal
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. -- Richard Hamming
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. -- Peter Matthiessen
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people -- Daniel Berrigan
Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers? -- Narendra Modi
Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. -- William Glasser
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work. -- Natalie Goldberg
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. -- Pat Conroy
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. -- Jay McInerney
We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers). -- Seth
To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded. -- Michael Bennet
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true. -- Catharine Beecher
Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce inredirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do. -- Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel
The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision. -- Henri Nouwen
Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage. -- Ken Robinson
All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you. -- Wayne Dyer
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm. -- Bertrand Russell
Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. -- Naomi Watts
Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts. -- Eknath Easwaran
Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it. -- Luke Evans
Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set Teachers Lounge up. -- Ted Alexandro
I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women. -- Meryl Streep
I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful. -- Anthony Bourdain
Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide. -- N. T. Wright
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play. -- Joshua Bell
We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning. -- Andy Hargreaves
If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love. -- Anne Lamott
Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none. -- Julie Andrews

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