It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
~By Anthony Doerr ~
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
~By Fred W. Friendly ~
After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
~By David Minge ~
I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
~By Oscar Robertson ~
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
~By James W. Black ~
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
~By John Knowles ~
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
~By Helen Garner ~
I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
~By Charles Van Doren ~
I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.
~By Todd Barry ~
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
~By Brian De Palma ~
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
~By Erno Rubik ~
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
~By Oscar Robertson ~
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
~By James Carville ~
I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
~By Gilbert Highet ~
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
~By Lord Acton ~
I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
~By John Cameron ~
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
~By Knute Rockne ~
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
~By David Eddings ~
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
~By John Milton ~
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
~By B. Carroll Reece ~
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
~By Simeon Poisson ~
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
~By John Woolman ~
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
~By John Sexton ~
This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
~By Al Jourgensen ~
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
~By Margaret Whiting ~
I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.
~By Diane Cilento ~
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
~By Dick York ~
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
~By Tony Bennett ~
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
~By Aly Khan ~
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
~By Mark Van Doren ~
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
~By David Eddings ~
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
~By James Loeb ~
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
~By Sly Stone ~
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
~By Simone Weil ~
There is no teaching to compare with example.
~By Robert Powell ~
I love teaching.
~By Harry Mathews ~
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
~By Glenn Beck ~
To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
~By John Carmack ~
I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.
~By Eric Bristow ~
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.
~By James Levine ~
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
~By Maya Lin ~
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
~By Peter Maxwell Davies ~
The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
~By Ann Beattie ~
That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.
~By Martin Sheen ~
I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.
~By Louise Fletcher ~
When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
~By Josef Albers ~
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
~By Gail Godwin ~
I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.
~By Ike Turner ~
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.
~By Margaret E. Sangster ~
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
~By John Sexton ~
John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.
~By William Godwin ~
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
~By William Glasser ~
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
~By Shannon Miller ~
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
~By Robert Morgan ~
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
~By Ralph Regula ~
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
~By Shelley Berman ~
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
~By A. J. Liebling ~
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.
~By Jim Harrison ~
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
~By Manuel Puig ~
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