Gautama Buddha Quotes

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Body

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Enemy
  • Look
  • Pitcher

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Science

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Game

• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Teacher

• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Things
  • Enemy

• For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Wonder
  • Teacher

• I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Teacher
  • Students
  • Negative

• When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Control
  • Teacher

• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Teacher
  • Better
  • Profound

• Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Health
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back at you.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Thinking
  • Mirror

• If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Great

• I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

  

  James Gray
  • Work

• Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Teacher
  • Enemy