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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. -- William Hazlitt
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Berlioz
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them. -- Robert Sternberg
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward
Experience is a great teacher. -- John Legend
Suffering is one of life's great teachers. -- Bryant H. McGill
I'd like to think I'm a great teacher. -- Gordon Ramsay
Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher. -- James Joyce
When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art, -- Geoffrey Canada
One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris. -- Danny Meyer
Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher. -- Eleanora Duse
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. -- Maria Callas
Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well. -- Albert Mohler
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. -- William Hazlitt
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. -- Peter Matthiessen
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. -- William Glasser
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. -- Condoleezza Rice
I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.' -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. -- Steve Harvey
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. -- Deepak Chopra
A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves. -- Herbie Hancock
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
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. -- John Steinbeck
Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two. -- Lynsay Sands
Life is the great teacher. -- James Joyce
Diligence is a great teacher -- Proverb
Any great teacher is a great student. -- T. D. Jakes
A great teacher makes hard things easy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires -- William Arthur Ward
Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope? -- Carl Sandburg
Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too. -- Susanne Bier
Time is a great teacher, but Cosmic Ordering is a great provider. -- Stephen Richards
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn. -- Ricky Martin
Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience. -- Evan Esar
Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts. -- William James Mayo
Wherever you find something extraordinary, youâ??ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher. -- Arne Duncan
Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way. -- Jennifer James
Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general. -- Akeem Ayers
Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love -- Maury Massler
Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. -- Deepak Chopra
A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires. -- Hosur Narasimhaiah
I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me. -- Lyle Lovett
Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. -- Richard Hamming
Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. -- Ashok Kallarakkal
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools. -- Wendy Kopp
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education. -- Laurence Housman
Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer. -- Oprah Winfrey
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people -- Daniel Berrigan
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people. -- Daniel Berrigan
Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant. -- James Arthur Ray
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences. -- Kobe Bryant
You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school. -- Eli Broad
Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers? -- Narendra Modi
A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives. -- Deval Patrick
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. -- Pat Conroy
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. -- Bobby Ray Inman
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. -- Barack Obama
Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. -- Michael Ignatieff
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
Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything. -- Bruce Lee
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
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head! -- J. K. Rowling
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us. -- C. S. Lewis
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
You would make a great teacher. (Grace) Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you're at it? (Julian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life. -- Carrie Fisher
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
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. -- Leslie Fiedler
I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher. -- Nikki Giovanni
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. -- Alfred Adler
The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents. -- Carly Fiorina
Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation. -- Edward Eggleston
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
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play. -- Buddy Rich
Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own. -- Yo-Yo Ma
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book. -- Jill Ker Conway
He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players. -- Pete Carroll
Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. -- Alexander Pope
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
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer. -- Tadashi Yanai
Don't swear at your past; you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maÃ®tre, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maÃ®tre inhumain qui tue ses Ã©lÃ¨ves.) -- Hector Berlioz
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
The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc. -- Paul Rankin
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
A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth. -- Suze Orman
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 am pretty involved with everything that goes on, and overtime have learned a lot about the business side of things. I have an amazing manager, who understands the business really well, so he is a great teacher. -- Tristan Prettyman
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York. -- Judy Collins
I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak. -- Michael Symon
I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured and ended up turning to cooking. It was an accident but the happiest one of my life. -- Gordon Ramsay
One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it. -- Sakyong Mipham
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 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
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives. -- James C. Collins
When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You also need to be lonely, because loneliness is a great teacher, too. -- Paul Theroux
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
Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it. -- Virginia McKenna
Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not be truly inspirational. What do I need to do to spark their passion to do the hard work to get a superb education?" -- Oliver DeMille
Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs. -- Oliver DeMille
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul. -- Juliette Binoche
What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value. -- Nathaniel Branden
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
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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
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask. -- Pat Conroy
An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate information. A great teacher teaches how to stand up and turn every challenge into opportunities. An extraordinary teacher teaches how to be larger than life by following your own dreams, own goals and own instincts. -- Amit Ray
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it. -- Deborah Mailman
And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak. -- Dave Winfield
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. -- Bill Gates
To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader - there's another relationship that makes those lives what they are. And in each of these cases you'll find elements of gift exchange thriving, and you'll also find a tension around it. -- Lewis Hyde
There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher who introduced me to the Meisner technique for acting. Once I read that book, I said, 'Wow, if I could do that and have that honest moment on stage, that would be amazing.' -- Nestor Carbonell

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