Norman Finkelstein Quotes

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

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• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Mistake

• 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

• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • More
  • Bones

• I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Tenure

• Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Teaching
  • Most
  • Did

• 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

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

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Career
  • Rock
  • Teaching

• 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

• I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Teaching

• The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Study
  • Bible

• One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Courage
  • Teaching
  • Actions

• 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

• You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Long
  • College

• Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

  

  Quint Studer
  • People
  • Culture
  • Learning

• As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Training

• It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Learning
  • Organization
  • Teaching

• When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Children
  • Discipline
  • Teaching

• One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Teaching

• It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  

  Petrarch
  • Books
  • Delight
  • Bones

• Teaching is of more importance than urging.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Teaching
  • Importance
  • Urging

• Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Covered

• Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.

  

  Andrew Sharp
  • Health
  • Wine
  • Relaxation

• Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

  

  Norman Finkelstein
  • Teaching
  • Bones