“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
“I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.” TryingMy OwnTeacherUnionsFirmIncidentsPupilsComradeship Author:Andres Segovia
“I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself.” ThinkingWayTryingI CanNaturalMy OwnTeacherDependsWalkingTechniqueBeing Yourself Author:Klaus Nomi
“We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.” ThinkingYearsKindRealSpiritualMy OwnPoorStruggleGrowing UpPathTeacherGrowingTeachingTaughtDevelopmentNeededProveYears AgoPsychicsAllegianceSpiritual Path Author:Echo Bodine
“My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.” KindMy OwnTeacherShareReturnIndiaWestAwakeningInquiry Author:Arjuna Ardagh
“Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings - people like Linda Kintz and Forest Pyle and Mary Wood and Diana Abu Jaber. They didn't treat me like a messy writer girl in combat boots who had infiltrated the smart people room. They treated me like I deserved to be there, potty mouth and all, they helped make a space for me to rage and ride my own intellect. That's why I'm saying their names out loud.” PeopleBookGirlNamesMy OwnSpaceRoomsSecretPathTeacherSmartMouthsTreatsWoodsIntellectRageRingsForestsTreatedLoudMapsCombatBootsMaryMessyNavigateSmart PeopleDianaPottyCombat BootsPotty Mouth Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.” PeopleThinkingTermMy OwnTeacherCollegeTownsConservativeBoxesBrilliantSmall TownUpbringingSixteenOutside The BoxThink Outside The Box Author:Ronee Blakley
“In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story, and as a teacher I'm obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies.” WayWritingStoriesMy OwnTeacherTeachingReaderSafetySentencesTendenciesStayingObligedGood StoryTeaching Writing Author:Leni Zumas
“I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.” PersonsMadeYoungFightingSpeakMy OwnTeacherGenerationsChildhoodTelevisionGeniusDramaMassRaisedRidiculousEstablishmentBobDylanHippieMy GenerationEnglish TeacherBeckettOpiatesGinsbergScience TeacherGeneration Y Author:Simon Rich
“Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I grew up with loving, supportive, encouraging parents that let me make my own world, and I wish that for every single child.” WorldChildrenRunningSchoolWishParentMy OwnTeacherGrewGrew UpLet MeSupportiveSchool SystemMy Own WorldLouisvilleSingle Child Author:Madi Diaz
“I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open.” PeopleIfsSaidEyeGuyAsksFoundStuffMy OwnInterestingFictionClassTeacherMagicOughtOne DayHeyGenerousProfessorsThis Guy Author:John D'Agata