#teachers

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#generation #had #how #lack #libraries

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#own #parents #passion #teachers #your

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#because #enough #even #father #grandfather

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression. ↗

— Jack Dee

#because #cheered #corner #did #expression

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists. ↗

— Mos Def

#just #leaders #lot #people #propagandists

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward. ↗

— Doug Collins

#forward #i #mind #one thing #pass

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse. ↗

— Julius Erving

#effort #else #faced #find #going

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. ↗

— John Fahey

#i #never #teachers #technique #them

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#father #main #mother #teachers #were