A Quotes
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“A te plânge că nu ai atins succesul, deși ai făcut eforturi, e ca și cum te-ai plânge de faptul că acel cub de gheață nu s-a topit încă la temperaturi mai mici de zero grade. Eforturile tale nu sunt irosite, ci sunt în curs de acumulare. Rezultatele notabile apar la zero grade.”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“A te trezi, în Roma ca și în oricare alt oraș, e o treabă personală și cel mai bine e să o rezolvi în liniște.”
Source: The Raphael Affair
“A tea master horrified his pupils by planting a hedge in his garden, blocking the view of the Inland Sea for which his school was famous,' I said, half to myself. 'He left only a gap in the hedge and set a basin before it. Anyone drinking from it would have to bend down and look at the sea through the hole.'
'Why do you think he planted the hedge to block out the famous view?'
'Tominaga explained it to me but I've only just really understood it now - the effect of seeing the view is much more powerful than if the sea has not been obstructed.”
Source: The Garden of Evening Mists
“A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.”
“A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.”
“A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of pain. However, if you're a person who knows it all, then you've got a lot of heavy-hearted experiences coming your way.”
Source: The Necessity of an Enemy: How the Battle You Face Is Your Best Opportunity
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops -Henry Adams”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“A teacher and a learner are never mediocre. Those who teach and those who learn are always superior.”
“A teacher and parent should always be on the same page. Its like pushing a stalled car, the car needs an extra push, but if the person driving pushes the car back while the person helping is trying to push it forward, the car will not move. Same with a student. If a teacher is trying to educate, the parent at home should be educating the same things.”
Source: A Positive mind will make you Succeed: I am proof of that - Coach Ferreira
“A teacher asked us if anybody knew the names of the continents. I was sooo excited. I was like, Damn it! It's my first day of 7th grade, I'm in junior high and I know this answer. So I raised my hand, I was the first one, and I said A-E-I-O-U!”
“A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.”
Source: Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist
“A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.”
“A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.”
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
“A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.”
“A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life.”
“A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings
“A teacher casts his work into the wind, knowing not where it will be blown, in hopes that a seed will land somewhere it can take root and outlive the one who cast it.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“A teacher does not necessarily have answers for all your questions but a good teacher is always open to every question.”
Source: Wanted Back-Bencher and Last-Ranker Teacher
“A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.”
Source: Crossing to Safety
“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”
Source: Snowy Night with a Stranger
“A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student, but not in the sense of physical proximity. The close students rotate a lot.”
“A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.”
“A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners.”
Source: How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, 2nd Edition
“A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own”
Source: The Dialectic of Freedom
“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.”
Source: A Howard Nemerov Reader
“A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.”
“A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.”
Source: Up the Down Staircase
“A teacher is like a magical mirror that will show you your future. Imagine if you have no teacher, it may mean you have no future.”
“A teacher is like the water, colorless and odorless”
“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.”
“A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.”
“A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.”
“A teacher is only as effective as his ability to understand where his student is.”
“A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny.”
“A Teacher is someone who
1. makes you eager to KNOW more
2. provokes you to raise QUESTIONS
3. teaches you the WAY of learning
4. guides to the path of HONESTY
5. tells you the difference b/t Wealth and Money
6. motivates you to share KNOWLEDGE
7. encourages you to HELP others
A teacher awares you with problems, effects, solutions of contamporary cicumstances on social, political and financial issues.”
“A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all...but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.”
“A teacher is the first citizen of the world and the first student of a class”
“A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are.”
“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”
Source: THE ART OF TEACHING
“A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.”
“A teacher of knowledge and power gives you experiences in other dimensions. They show you that the universe is much bigger and more fascinating than you had ever imagined. They give you direct and immediate experiences in other realities.”
“A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.”
“A teacher of one subject was once a student learning many subjects”
“A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.”
“A teacher's advice can give a voice to a student and ignite a candle of hope in a life filled with noise”
“A teacher’s true legacy is not the lessons written on a blackboard, but the wisdom they instill in minds and hearts. Knowledge shared with patience can ignite a lifetime of curiosity. The smallest words of encouragement can guide someone to discover their own potential.”
“A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.”
“A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.”
“A teacher should be sparing of his smile.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations