“Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.” PeopleDifferentBeliefTeachingTaughtBuddhismCircumstancesAbsolutesCreatorDifferent PeoplesNegation Author:Dalai Lama
“In my teaching and consulting practice, I encourage people to learn to experiment with confidence and to see themselves as scientists in the laboratory of their lives, continually trying new ways to pursue what matters most to them and to the people who depend on them. Smart, small wins are crucial to this approach, as is devoting time and attention to reflecting on what works and what doesn't.” PeopleWayTryingMatterWinningAttentionPracticeTeachingDependsApproachSmartScientistExperimentsPursueCrucialNew WaysWhat MattersReflectingLaboratoryConsultingSmall Wins Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“Incidentally, the creationists that I've encountered diligently deny that our Earth's climate is being altered by people. This point of view and teaching is in absolutely no one's best interest. Here's hoping we can work together and preserve the Earth, for us - us humans.” PeopleHumansEarthTogetherInterestViewsTeachingClimateDenyPoint Of ViewPreservesWorking TogetherAltered Author:Bill Nye
“There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.” PeopleKindTeachingAll KindsAdvertisingNickels Author:Garry Winogrand
“Those things that you just do, if you put that together in a DVD program, let's say, for $97, to teach people how to do that. Well, if you sold 100 of those a month, that's $9,700 of income a month just teaching what you already do and know to people who want to learn how to do the same.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantWellsTogetherTeachTeachingMonthsProgramIncomeDvds Author:Brendon Burchard
“My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.” PeopleI CanPainTeachingCircumstancesYieldControlledSatisfyingBecause I Can Author:Phillip Lopate
“Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this experience, you have to really go back to the fundamentals.” PeopleKnowsArtAgeYoungUsedGivenBreakPiecesTeachingStudentsEssentialsFundamentalsAssumptionBitesComponentsExplainingTeaching ArtArt Students Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.” PeopleCoursesSpeakLanguageTeachingStudentsVery GoodDesertBloodyPermacultureBushmenNamibia Author:Bill Mollison
“At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.” PeopleThinkingLevelsTeacherTeachingSubjectsCommunion Author:Parker J. Palmer
“I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.” PeopleJesusTeaching Author:T. D. Jakes
“I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal life, but I don't believe in America, a first amendment nation, where we don't raise any religion over the other, and we allow people to worship they please, that the doctrines of any religion should be mandated for everyone.” PeopleWayShouldTryingFirstsBelieveAmericaNationsChurchMy OwnPracticeTeachingPleaseWorshipRaisesDon't BelieveDoctrineAmendmentsPersonal LifeFirst Amendment Author:Tim Kaine
“In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' before you do it, but in my case it was a gun."” PeopleSaidGuyCoursesNumbersClassCasesTeachingPaperGunSavedPrisonerPapersDaggersLaura Author:Margaret Atwood
“The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.” PeopleJesusTeacherTeachingExcitingTownsProfessionNursingGreat DepressionIndianapolis Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I live near Amish communities in northern Indiana and I have the greatest respect for such faithful people. They attempt to live their faith more fully by separating themselves, as far as possible, from the wider culture and its influences. That has never been the teaching of the Catholic faith.” PeopleCultureCommunityInfluenceTeachingCatholicFaithfulIndianaSeparatingAmishCatholic Faith Author:John I. Jenkins
“I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this time they would learn basic Buddhist philosophy in a monastic community where all the teaching and training was directed toward living a perfect monastic life and wasn't channeled out to fit into the lay life - which is what usually happens in Dharma centers where the teachings are directed toward how to live the Dharma in your everyday life.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsPhilosophyHelpingHappensCommunityPerfectTeachingPeriodsFitTrainingLaysEverydayBuddhistStrictEveryday LifeDharmaMonastic LifeBuddhist Philosophy Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsPersonsFallTeachingRight NowEarsIntelligentAgreeOppressionOppressedSympatheticRelievedIntelligent Person Author:Malcolm X
“The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.” PeopleThinkingMenMindHumansMatterSufferingBlackHuman BeingsWhiteTeachingBlack PeopleTomsUnclesWhite ManEmancipationProclamationPlantationsAbeEmancipation ProclamationUncle Tom Author:Malcolm X
“The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America.” PeopleTryingAmericaSocialBlackWhiteEconomicTeachingConditionsGuiltGuiltyUpliftingBlack PeopleMentalityHonorableWhite SupremacyMuhammadSupremacyElijahAccusingElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Malcolm X
“Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."” PeopleKnowsMenCountryAmericaFormBlackWhiteAttitudeTeachingWorstBehaviorHatredDeedsListsGuiltyBlack PeopleHonorableWhite ManHistoricMuhammadTry AgainElijahElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Malcolm X
“I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.” PeopleWritingMindStillsCommonStudyTeachingTalentOpen Mind Author:Elie Wiesel
“In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.” PeopleIfsMenYearsCountryThreeCoursesBlackTeachingCenturyProducePercentThirdsCaughtFiftyGradesFortyBlack PeopleThree Years19th CenturySignaturesThird GradePenmanship Author:Robert Hass
“My ex-husband has been one of my best teachers, and I believe that the areas of our life and the people in our lives that present the most problems to us - they really are our best teachers. They're teaching us lessons that we have to learn anyway, and if we don't accept the lesson from them, there will just be another teacher to step in and take their place.” PeopleIfsBelieveHas BeensProblemI BelieveAcceptingStepsTeacherOur LivesTeachingLessonsHusbandAreasExesBest TeacherEx HusbandPeople In Our Lives Author:Rene Marie
“In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers. There are a lot of people who want to go into teaching; it's fundamentally a very fulfilling profession. But people don't feel they have financial support. We pay starting teachers in particular too little to attract the quality people that we need. I want to make it easier for good people who want to go into teaching to do that.” PeopleWantNeedsFeelsTryingLittlesPayQualitySupportTeacherOne ThingTeachingParticularEasierStartingFinancialProfessionGood PeopleFulfillingFinancial Support Author:Charles Schumer
“I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be there on Sunday morning - I just sit there in a pew with my wife, that's all I do, but I'm very much a part of that congregation. We've got a fantastic rector,she brings in people from places like the United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, where you've got good teaching, and our people are being introduced to great material and they really respond. They're able to believe without crossing their fingers. And I think that's a real step forward.” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealAbleChurchUnitedStepsMorningWifeTeachingMaterialsExcitingFingersMy WifeFantasticSundayJerseyCrossingsTheologicalNew JerseySteps ForwardCongregationMinnesotaSunday MorningGood TeachingSeminaryBrighton Author:John Shelby Spong
“Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on this new translation - with my part being to help render it into a verse form that would be good to chant. Since I have worked with many dying people over the years and often share the Heart Sutra with them, I found this new version that we created together to be so much more accessible to those who were facing death.” PeopleYearsHeartHelpingWould BeTogetherFormFoundShareTeachingDyingInsightBe GoodVersionsVersesTranslationsWondrousSwitzerlandFacing Death Author:Joan Halifax
“The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.” PeopleSpeakChurchTeachingGenderSexualityInequalityAshamedHomosexualityOrganisationAversionGender Inequality Author:Hozier
“As a kid, you're starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting religious principles and teachings, they start drawing these lines and creating confines in their life to live within certain lines.” PeopleIfsWantKidsCertainGrowsReligiousLinesPrinciplesGrowing UpTeachingCreatingStartingDrawingAbsorbingAdopting Author:Mahershala Ali
“So many Muslims would tell you that they felt like that you had to - you fold it into yourself because people were looking at you and recognizing you as being the culprit even though, look, I'm American. I don't believe that the teachings of Islam justified those actions.” PeopleBelieveLooksActionFeltTeachingIslamDon't BelieveRecognizingJustifiedFoldsCulprit Author:Mahershala Ali
“I do not accept the fact that conditions that prevent people from attaining their eternal destiny were born into them without any ability to control. That is contrary to the Plan of Salvation, and it is contrary to the justice and mercy of God. It's contrary to the whole teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which expresses the truth that by or through the power and mercy of Jesus Christ we will have the strength to do all things. That includes resisting temptation. That includes dealing with things that we're born with, including disfigurements, or mental or physical incapacities.” PeopleWholeFactsJesusChristBornJusticeAbilityAcceptingDestinyPlansTeachingConditionsEternalJesus ChristAll ThingsMercySalvationIncludingContraryTemptationResistingIncapacityMercy Of GodJustice And MercyResisting TemptationPlan Of SalvationDisfigurement Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Every teaching position, every missionary position can be held by single people. We welcome to that kind of service people who are struggling with any kind of temptation when the struggle is a good struggle and they are living so as to be appropriate teachers, or missionaries, or whatever the calling may be.” PeopleKindMayStruggleTeacherTeachingPositionCallingWelcomeTemptationAppropriateMissionarySingle People Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there is a project at the Zinn Educational Project: A People's History of Muslims in the United States - What School Textbooks and the Media Miss. And this program is teaching your high school student, juror junior high or middle school student.” PeopleStatesSchoolUnitedUnited StatesTeachingMiddleMediaMissingStudentsProjectsHigh SchoolProgramEducationalBunchInsaneRadicalRanJuniorsLunaticTextbooksMiddle SchoolLeftistsJunior HighHigh School StudentsJurors Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My fear is we're not teaching competition. We're shielding people from it. For the longest time children, you know, nobody's allowed to win anything, participation trophies. But when you get to real life and if you really want to amount to something, when you get whatever line of work you're in, as you get to the top of that line of work, there are very few people there.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantChildrenRealWinningLinesTeachingAmountCompetitionReal LifeParticipationTrophies Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.” PeopleThinkingWellsLooksYoungOpportunityGamesEnjoyTeachPracticeTeacherTeachingSkillsBasketballPassionateCoachingLife SkillsLove Teaching Author:Pat Summitt
“I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.” PeopleKnowsWorldHelpingDesireSpiritualityDifferencesKnow HowTeachingDadMy DadBeing TrueBurningFakeMaking A DifferenceNutritionModellingBurning DesireTrue To MyselfHealth And NutritionFake World Author:Miranda Kerr
“It's not about what you achieve, it's actually what you do for your industry and that's what I think is important. And when people look at me and they see my achievements with the restaurants do you know what I think? I think I did more than that. What I achieved was teaching young men and young women when they were young and inspiring them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenLooksImportantYoungTeachingAchieveIndustryAchievementYoung ManRestaurantsDo You KnowYoung WomenLook At Me Author:Marco Pierre White
“If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one because then the person isn't equipped to deal with the economics profession.” PeopleIfsNeedsPersonsDifferentSchoolDealsTeachTeachingDisciplineEconomicsProfession Author:Charles Koch
“We [me and my wife] went back to St. Paul, worked for a year - again, I guess I would have to admit now, doing a rather shaky job of teaching people - but at the end of that year we returned to England and worked in the [Bernard] Leach Pottery for two and a half years.” PeopleYearsTwoEndsJobsHalfWifeTeachingEnglandMy WifePotteryHalf A Year Author:Warren MacKenzie
“There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing focus, probably true. But where my heart is, is with people who are just passing through difficult time. I want to put literature in a form that is accessible for people who don't particularly read books.” PeopleWantNeedsHeartBookFormLiteratureDifficultFocusTeachingMy HeartPassingPassingsDevelopingAcademicDiscipleDifficult TimesPassing Through Author:Max Lucado
“I feel like hate and darkness get so much airtime. We need to give peace and love as much airtime as we can. We need to be teaching our kids that it's okay to love whoever you want to love, and it's okay to be who you want to be, and it's okay to feel that everybody should be treated equally and with respect. Such simple things that I don't know why it's hard for people to understand.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsGivingFeelsShouldHardKidsHateSimpleDarknessTeachingOkayAnd LoveTreatedSimple ThingsPeace And Love Author:Jim James
“We don't seek to destroy our enemies. After all, Jesus taught that our love must extend even to enemies. It's a remarkable teaching. Not to destroy enemies, but to convert hearts, to win people over to the cause of justice.” PeopleHeartJesusWinningCausesJusticeEnemyTeachingTaughtRemarkableOur Love Author:Robert P. George
“The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves you along, moves your emotions as well as informs your intellect.” PeopleWayWellsStoriesMovingEmotionFictionTeachingHistoricalIntellectSignificantLogicalHistorical FictionPropositionsPower Of Stories Author:Hank Hanegraaff
“People remember stories much better than they remember a straight list of teachings.” PeopleRememberTeaching Author:Marcus Borg
“I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two or three years it was heady. I was discovering that I could do something and do it well. Be useful to people. It was exhilarating, sort of like the first two weeks of being in love with somebody, and then it becomes like the third bite of pizza. The first bite is wonderful. The second bite is not disappointing. The third? Meh. You get used to it.” PeopleWonderfulWeekTeachingCompareBeing In LoveDisappointingExhilarating Author:Cynthia Voigt
“I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.” PeopleThinkingKindChildrenTeaching Author:Cynthia Nixon
“Great leaders in our study treated their people like partners in the organization. That meant they created for their people a sense of connection by teaching them how their jobs impact the larger organization. And they showed them growth opportunities, how they can grow and develop with the company.” PeopleOpportunityGrowthLeaderStudyTeachingGreat Leader Author:Adrian Gostick
“I was the type of person who was the question-asker. And not just genuine questions, I would ask a question so the author would know how much I knew about them. Once I went to a Tobias Wolff reading. I knew he was teaching at Syracuse at that time. And so, I remember asking him how he liked Syracuse. People do that to me now and it's okay. There is rarely a time when I just have had enough.” PeopleEnoughRememberReadingTeachingOkayTobias Author:David Sedaris
“My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant talent, you have to believe in the future. It makes me hungry, as a 65-year-old. I'm not thinking about the time that is behind me. I'm thinking of these people that I watch to catch up with and be in their company.” PeopleThinkingBelieveTeachingTalentBrilliantHungryCynicalEmerging Author:Paula Vogel
“Something that we call developing the third eye in others. The eye is that people have intention when they're interacting, and often don't realize that there is an impact for everything that they do. The littlest thing, from scratching their head back here. This is, universally, "I don't understand what you said." That's what the scratch behind the ear means. If we know that, it's a whole other level. I could go back and say, "Let me do this again, because I'm seeing that it's not fully registering." We should be teaching these to people, is what I'm saying.” PeopleMeanEyeRealizingTeachingLet MeIntention Author:Judith E. Glaser
“Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is, to me, the reward for all the private time invested. And I love teaching to a fault; I have a hard time not giving away a lot of my own writing energy to my students.” PeopleGivingWritingEnergyLove IsTeachingStudentsHard TimesSolitary Author:Julia Glass
“Thing that we wanted to do was redefine what a green job was, what a climate job was. We said: "Wait a minute. There's all these people out there who are doing low-carbon work." It's not just guys in hard hats putting up solar panels. Teaching is low carbon. Caring for the sick is low carbon. Daycare is a green workplace. Overwhelmingly, this is work that is done by women, overwhelmingly women of color, on the frontlines of austerity clawbacks.” PeopleDoneGuyWaitingTeachingSickCaringWorkplace Author:Naomi Klein