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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Look within,

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Teacher
  • Teaching
  • Differences

• To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • College

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

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Feelings
  • Criticism

• Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you've done it to me. And this is what I've come to think. That if I want to identify fully with Jesus Christ, who I claim to be my Savior and Lord, the best way that I can do that is to identify with the poor. This I know will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers. But they're just wrong. They're not bad, they're just wrong. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken-hearted.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Thinking
  • Jesus
  • Brother

• Holding on to the weak is called strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Strength
  • Weak
  • Holding

• The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Mind
  • Longing
  • Awakening

• What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

  

  Brion Gysin
  • Great
  • Right
  • Here

• As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Water

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

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Teaching
  • Example
  • Precept