“Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.” WritingSometimesTeachTeachingPriorities Author:Pam Houston
“Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.” JobsFunTeachingHaving FunEditorsEditingTranslations Author:Gregory Rabassa
“I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.” WritingDifferentRunningWantedNiceTeachingUniversityVisitingBookstores Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.” AgeThreeHouseTeachingRoundsPiano Author:Ella Henderson
“I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used to love writing poems and poetry, so I guess I kind of put two and two together and that formed my songwriting from an early age.” WritingKindTwoPlayAgeSchoolTogetherUsedThreeTeachingNotesSevenSongwritingChordsUsed To LoveWriting Poems Author:Ella Henderson
“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
“. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is that a religious doctrine or a nationalist one? In Germany especially, the whole super-nationalist ideology of the post-1871 empire is heavily imbued with religious teaching, chiefly Lutheran, and frankly viewing the new empire as the germ of the kingdom of God on Earth.” IfsBelieveWholeEarthNationsReligiousStruggleTeachingEuropeKingdomsDoctrineIdeologyPostsGermanyEmpiresKingdom Of GodIf You BelieveGermsSupremacyLutherans Author:Philip Jenkins
“I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.” KnowsWorldBelieveWellsChildrenCultureI BelieveKnow HowTeachingModelsOur ChildrenTablesDinnerDiscourseAdagesDinner TableReligion And Politics Author:Julianna Baggott
“I was a sound engineer, and all of these gurus and shamans would come, and I would record the workshops they were teaching. And I took part in a shamanic journeying workshop, and this woman leading the workshop had brought Ayahuasca, which is a Peruvian hallucinogen and contains DMT.” SoundRecordsTeachingEngineersGuruWorkshopsDmtAyahuascaHallucinogensPeruvians Author:Larkin Grimm
“Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the next: I'll wake up and have coffee, read the news, then write a letter or two (always in longhand), then go teach, and after teaching write a bit in a journal - dreams, what I had for breakfast and lunch and why I had it, what's on the iPod, sexual habits, etc. - then read a bit, then work on a real bit of writing...you get the idea.” WritingTwoIdeasRealDreamSeemsNextBitsTeachTeachingHabitBalanceExerciseEatingNewsAspectFlowLettersWake UpCoffeeEtcBreakfastLunchJournalWovenIpods Author:Kevin Keck
“I love teaching. I wouldn't take a job that didn't include it.” JobsTeachingLove Teaching Author:Paul Bloom
“For the most part, people use "empathy" to mean everything good. For instance, many medical schools have courses in empathy. But if you look at what they mean, they just want medical students to be nicer to their patients, to listen to them, to respect them, to understand them. What's not to like? If they were really teaching empathy, then I'd say there is a world of problems there.” PeopleIfsWorldWantLooksMeanUseProblemSchoolCoursesTeachingStudentsEmpathyPatientMedicalInstanceWant MeMedical School Author:Paul Bloom
“Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.” WorldLittlesBookRealSchoolTeachingTrainingHigh SchoolNovelistsLives Of Others Author:Garth Greenwell
“I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching.” TryingWantedSchoolTogetherRacePiecesTeachingLet MeGraduatesGraduate SchoolTenure Author:Garth Greenwell
“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.” IfsWritingKindLittlesI CanDifferentSometimesDoneBigsSchoolReadingEnjoyCrazyTeachingAnxietySingingHigh SchoolVariousPerformingPrivacyOperaDifferent KindsExhaustingChunksPoetry ReadingOpera Singing Author:Garth Greenwell
“I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to teach myself how to do plot and scene. My first story collection had the most issues with the plotlessness, and when I was writing my second collection I was teaching myself how to make things happen.” WritingTryingYearsFirstsMomentsStoriesHappensWantedTeachIssuesTeachingPoetSceneThings HappenCollectionsPlotMake Things Happen Author:Dan Chaon
“I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.” KidsTeacherTeachingCourtEntrepreneurTennisClassroomTeaching Kids Author:Boris Kodjoe
“We always get dressings and sauces on the side. However, we definitely like our glass of wine - or three sometimes. We order dessert but just take a few bites. I stopped buying processed foods. The hardest part is teaching this to our kids, but slowly we're making progress.” SometimesKidsOrderThreeSidesProgressTeachingWineGlassesHardestBuyingBitesDressingsDessertSauceWine GlassProcessed Food Author:Dayna Devon
“I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me.” PeopleHardMotherPowerfulKindnessTeachingInspireHard WorkIntegrityInspiredDecencyBishopsKenneth Author:Erica Tazel
“I've always really been interested in getting to work with QVC because I love teaching people about fashion and I love seeing people get excited by what they're wearing.” PeopleSeeingTeachingFashionExcitedLove Teaching Author:Brad Goreski
“The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.” MenNeedsShouldKidsTeachingTerribleConceptsRescueTeaching Kids Author:Richard Madden
“I taught for a semester, but couldn't work out my teaching schedule with my acting schedule because they just didn't jive. So, I had to make a decision. And by sheer luck, I'm sure, I have not stopped working as an actor.” ActorsDecisionActingTeachingTaughtLuckWork OutSheerSchedulesSemester Author:Danny Burstein
“When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page keeps getting gold stars from me for doing wacko stuff all over the page. A riskier assignment for that student, who might be used to hiding behind a lot of formal armor, would be to try to do something straightforward, traditionally, in which they are much more directly laid bare for the reader.” IfsTryingMightWould BeJobsUsedStarsStuffBehindsTeachingStudentsReaderComfortablePagesGoldHidingFormalStraightforwardArmorAssignments Author:John D'Agata
“I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.” JesusMoralTeachingCatholicFellowsMovedRaisedDogmaExclusivity Author:Tom Shadyac
“And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that?” ChristianAttitudeTeachingDoctrineComplexityOpennessRelevantPropositionsJoyousChristian Doctrine Author:George Pattison
“I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does. I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car I've been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute.” WritingDoePhilosophyImaginationReligiousTeachingLandCarListeningAspectDrivingPostsRealmsStationsRealisticBlogsInstituteClevelandMoody Author:Brad Warner
“There's many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don't have to be on the razor's edge like the yellow line dotted in the middle. Balance is appropriate, not too tight, not too loose, the Middle Way as we call it in Buddhist dharma teachings.” WayLinesTeachingMiddleBalanceEnlightenmentEdgesBuddhistAppropriateYellowHighwaysDharmaLanesRazorsMiddle Way Author:Surya Das
“Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and so on, not proselytizing and missionary-izing. Not shoving the truth down people's throats, as if we know what's good for them. But being open when asked, when appropriate, and being very inclusive and open minded.” PeopleIfsKnowsTeachingAppropriateThroatMissionaryInvitedOpen MindOpen MindedContributingConvertingProselytizing Author:Surya Das
“The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.” PeopleKnowsNeedsFeelsMeanIdeasSelfHardProblemWould BeFoundUnderstandingTeachingIdentityTypeEssentialsAbsolutesFixedMistakenSelflessnessNo ProblemUnchanging Author:Robert Thurman
“In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in, different stories, different approaches to the truth, which always is the same.” WorldDifferentStoriesFormCertainTeachingEvolutionApproachEvolveThings ChangeDifferent ApproachPointers Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility of teaching a course together looking at ways in which various literary works (plays, stories, novels) had been treated as operas, and how different themes emerged in the opera and in its original. One of the pairings we planned to use was Mann's great novella and Britten's opera. Unfortunately, the course was never taught, but the idea remained with me.” WayIdeasDifferentPhilosophyPlayStoriesUseTogetherCoursesNovelTeacherTeachingPossibilityTaughtMy FriendsOriginalsVariousTreatedThemeOperaColleaguesCarolsLiterary WorksMusic TeacherWork Play Author:Philip Kitcher
“I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.” DoneJobsTeachingTaughtDaughterMakeupLipstickBad Jobs Author:Viola Davis
“In my view, all students should be given an initial opportunity to pursue the science track as far as it goes. But for those who quickly decide that track isn't for them, a different style of teaching is in order.” ShouldDifferentOrderOpportunityGivenViewsTeachingStyleStudentsTrackPursueInitialsDifferent Styles Author:Philip Kitcher
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” KnowsInspirationalKindTwoKnowledgeLearningTeachingSubjectsInformationLibraryKnowledge Of The WorldKnowledge LearningLearning KnowledgeKnowing EverythingKnowledge And InformationInformation KnowledgePractical KnowledgeBook Knowledge Author:Samuel Johnson
“When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my longing to go back to work was wanting to be surrounded by these people who were teaching me things and drinking bad coffee at three in the morning while we were lying around in a bikini in the winter. Somehow it just felt like real life. It felt more like real life than my life.” PeopleLittlesRealHomeLyingThreeFeltMorningTeachingMomLonelyMy FamilyLongingDrinkingWinterMy MomCoffeeReal LifeBack To WorkBikinis Author:Jodie Foster
“Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life.” PersonsDoeAbleCertainIndividualEnergyTeachingExampleUniqueTraditionBuddhistGood LifeFortitudeShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“Shambhala teachings say we all have the potential to accomplish our enlightened nature - our basic goodness.” TeachingGoodnessAccomplishEnlightenedShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“Part of the notion in Shambhala teachings is that everybody can live their lives so they get weaker and more stressed out as they go along, or so they get more fortitude and strength.” TeachingNotionFortitudeStressedStressed OutShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensCertainCultureSecretPracticeTeachingSpecialInformationBecomingEasierQuietBenefitsTraditionAccess Author:Sakyong Mipham
“My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.” ShouldSchoolCareersTeachingTerribleShould HaveBuffalo Author:Rob Roberge
“I feel like there is an emphasis against teaching geography in American schools. Americans don't say, "I'm going to Germany." They say, "I'm going to Europe."” FeelsSchoolTeachingEuropeGermanyEmphasisGeography Author:Ayshay
“The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the limits to our control that parenthood teaches- - that that will be lost and that we will begin to think of children more as consumer goods than as gifts that we can't fully control and for which we aren't fully responsible.” ThinkingChildrenLostParentMoralTeachWorryTeachingEffectsHumilityLimitsResponsibleConsumersGoodsParenthood Author:Michael Sandel
“I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.” I CanTeachingChildhoodTraditionBackgroundsExpertsBroadsScholarlyJewish Tradition Author:Michael Sandel
“I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.” ThinkingTryingImportantCommunityReligiousTeachingBearsInsightDebateCellsEngineeringStemStem CellGenetic EngineeringReligious Community Author:Michael Sandel
“Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.” ThinkingImportantPlayMightSportsRolesTeachingBenefitsStructureGolfTeaching Others Author:Rory McIlroy
“First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.” WorldFirstsChildrenJoyFamilyTeachingMy FamilyOur ChildrenCompareBrad Author:Angelina Jolie
“My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.” DifferentEnoughBrainTeachTeachingStudentsLuckySmartGraduatesVery SmartGraduate Students Author:Dana Spiotta
“My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.” ThinkingGivingEnergyForceFictionPiecesTeachingGive Me Author:Dana Spiotta
“I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.” BigsGroupsTeachingAssociates Author:Frank Fairfield
“I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more.” UseTeachingProjectsStomachMicrophones Author:Gonjasufi