Ernest Holmes Quotes

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

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• John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Fun
  • Student
  • Bloom

• 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.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Myself
  • Media
  • Student

• 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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • History
  • Student

• 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.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Play
  • Teacher
  • Student

• My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Art
  • Wife
  • Film

• 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
  • Good
  • Teach
  • Teaching

• The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Leadership
  • Teaching
  • Example

• 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
  • God
  • May
  • True

• 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
  • Important
  • Learning
  • Struggle

• All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Men
  • Needs

• I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Student

• I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Teach
  • Student
  • Finals

• The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Simple

• That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Long
  • Education
  • Teaching

• The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

  

  William James
  • Art
  • Teacher
  • Teaching

• The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Art
  • Mistake

• No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

  

  William Osler
  • Teacher
  • Successful
  • Teaching

• As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Believe
  • Teaching
  • Biblical

• It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Teaching
  • Climbing
  • Buddy

• There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Star
  • Lazy
  • Butterfly

• I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Day
  • Prayer

• One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Style
  • Eye
  • Tears

• Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

  

  Alice Neel
  • Humanity
  • Interest
  • Analyzing

• True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Teaching
  • Student
  • Liberates