Christine McVie Quotes
I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
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I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'
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Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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It takes a lot of energy to teach.
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Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
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Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.
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I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has said about me.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.
