Alice von Hildebrand Quotes
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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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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We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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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.
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Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.
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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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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.
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As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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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.
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Look within,
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All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.
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The best learning I had came from teaching.
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Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.
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The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
