Teach Quotes
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Theater schools teach you how to act, but they don't teach you anything about the business, so I got to New York, had no idea what the hell I was doing, and just did anything I could for a really long time.
Erin Maya Darke
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I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course for me as well, so in a sense, I'm hopefully learning as much as my students are - or at least discovering or re-discovering as much as they are. I find that when I teach, I'm reminded of my own sort of failings. I'm reminded of where I sometimes keep going wrong.
Alfred Molina
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Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.
Janet Jackson
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When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.
Tony Kushner
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In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.
Alicia Keys
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A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.
Martin Luther
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Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.
D. Wayne Calloway
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I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.
Shane Carruth
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Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.
Marcel Proust
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Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
John Baizley Baroness
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You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
Miguel de Unamuno
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No one teaches mindfulness better than Thich Nhat Hanh.
B. J. Gallagher Hateley
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Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.
Marianne Williamson
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People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.
Lucille Ball
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Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
Edwin Arnold
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To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a way that you're teaching them a religious identity that is relevant to only a very small part of their lives, because the vast majority of their lives in the 21st century are going to be lived in interaction with others.
Eboo Patel
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The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.
Erik Weihenmayer
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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
William P. Leahy
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Teach hope to all, despair to none.
Abraham Lincoln