Heber J. Grant Quotes

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

Heber J. Grant

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• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Example
  • Prejudice

• My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Father
  • Example

• The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Example
  • Privilege
  • Russia

• 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
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Arts

• Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Powerful
  • Advice
  • Example

• I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Daughter
  • Example

• We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Years
  • Evolution
  • Example

• All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Precept

• The professionals must set a good example.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Good
  • Example
  • Good Example

• When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • School
  • Business
  • Teaching

• 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
  • Moral
  • Teaching
  • Act

• This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Career
  • Rock
  • Teaching

• 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
  • Hope
  • Happens
  • Teaching

• If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

  

  W. W. Sawyer
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Education

• 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
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Purpose

• Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • High
  • Words
  • Teaching

• I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • School

• Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Feelings
  • Criticism

• Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Teaching

• I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me. We started playing tournaments together when I was 11, in the lower ranking of beach volleyball in California. We weren't playing against kids; we played against grown men, so immediately, I had to raise my game to compete.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Sports

• And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Poverty
  • Example

• Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friends
  • Man Is
  • Secret Path

• Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Teaching
  • Example
  • Precept