#teaching

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist. ↗

— Ike Turner

#applied #artist #being #considered #entertain

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. ↗

— Alice Walker

#children #earlier #i #i believe #much

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ↗

— Simone Weil

#important #know #most #part #teach

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#everybody #incapable #learning #taken #teaching

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#already #bring #completion #course #during

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#good #preparation #pure #teaching #theatre

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#conference #disappearing #forest #gift #had

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#been #catholic #characteristics #combination #combined

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. ↗

— Al Green

#believe #child #everyone #fail #i

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#because #dry #get #good #help