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

• I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when I fell in love with the idea of doing it for the rest of my life.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

  

  John Mackey
  • People
  • World
  • Technology

• For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Together
  • Pain
  • Moments

• Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Teacher
  • Enemy