“I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.” PersonsLongLightUniverseMy OwnQualityTeacherBuddhismBalanceQuietLong TimeFortitudeLong Time Ago Author:Frederick Lenz
“How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.” NamesMy OwnCasesTeacherMastersAchievementConscious Author:C. F. Powell
“If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.” IfsKnowsI CanBookMy OwnKnow HowTeacherCommunicateWho I Am Author:Donalyn Miller
“Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.” PeopleThinkingNeedsI CanPlayMy OwnTeachTeacherTeachingGoodness Author:Itzhak Perlman
“My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands of miles, travel, all at my own expense, to do this.” WorldAmericaMy OwnTeacherMeditationEuropeMilesCanadaExpensesRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.” KnowsYearsMy OwnTeachTeacherMeditationAll ThingsRamaReferringMediation Author:Frederick Lenz
“I was always my own teacher.” My OwnLearningTeacher Book:One Writer's Beginnings Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.” YearsWellsStillsMy OwnTeacherLessonsPianoMusic LessonsPiano Teachers Author:Mose Allison
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. I love music because it's really just - I tried to play piano as a kid. I was awful. It didn't help, and this is absolutely true, that my piano teacher had arthritis. And that's not a good way to learn.” WayPlayHelpingKidsMy OwnTeacherMusic IsAwfulPianoGood WayMusic LoveI Love MusicArthritisPiano Teachers Author:Lewis Black
“As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.” ThinkingWorldMayLyingLostMy OwnTeacherOfficeCapableSickTeenagerBeing The BestNurseHeadphonesMy Own WorldBest Day Ever Author:Wesley Eisold
“Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.” ThinkingMenGivingShouldWellsMightRunningLawAsksFatherGrowsBornChanceMy OwnLibertyTeacherPleaseRiversTreatsLet MeDeniedNative AmericanFree ManNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native American Author:Dee Brown