G. I. Gurdjieff Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
Malcolm X -
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
Oscar Wilde -
I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
Nancy Roman -
Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
Earl Butz -
When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Warren E. Burger
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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel -
The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.
M. Russell Ballard -
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
Oswald Chambers -
The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
Garry Winogrand -
I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
Garry Winogrand -
Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.
Garry Winogrand
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Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.
J. I. Packer -
One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.
T. D. Jakes -
You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.
M.I.A. -
Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.
Quint Studer -
But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.
Quint Studer
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The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.
H. L. Mencken -
I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.
William Stafford -
Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.
Ray Bradbury -
The best learning I had came from teaching.
Corrie Ten Boom -
The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.
Kate Brown -
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
G. I. Gurdjieff