Ernest Holmes Quotes
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.
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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
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'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.
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To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
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I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
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In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white.
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My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
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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.
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The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
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The best learning I had came from teaching.
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I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine.
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Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.
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True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.
