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I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you. — Warren Buffett

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed. — Jill Abramson

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal. — Jesse Stuart

Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work. — Cate Marvin

I'm considered something like a graduate student and we get credits for mentoring incoming students. I definitely got lucky with my first assignment — Kristen Day

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's. — Donalyn Miller

Use your imagination," I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you. — Ronald Sukenick

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students. — Vivek Wadhwa

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. — Josef Albers

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students. — James Tobin

I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention. — Tony Earley

I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags. — Cynthia Lennon

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well. — Dorianne Laux

I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books. — Helen Simonson

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. — Henri Lebesgue

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. — Annie Dillard

I advise all my novel students to write in the company of 'Veronica Mars.' — Andrea Seigel

Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students. — Donna McKechnie

The real question my students are asking is "Why doesn't grammar make sense?"
And the answer is illuminating: grammar is a mirror to ourselves. — Gabriel Wyner

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference. — Alice McDermott

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule. — Tayari Jones

I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me. — Phil Klay

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur. — Lawrence M. Krauss

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.) — Truman Capote

When I taught, all my best students were women. — Zaha Hadid

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it. — Rachel Zucker

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together. — Parker J. Palmer

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo. — Frederick Lenz

If my students are to meet every inch of their academic potential, I must understand the barriers to education that exist for them. — Kyle Schwartz

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. — Carl Sagan

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down. — Erno Rubik

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book. — Edmund White

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone. — Kirsten Olson

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses. — James Thayer

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be. — Maureen Corrigan

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music. — Troy Andrews

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective. — George Wald

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising. — Robert Morgan

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing. — Kim Edwards

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. — Garry Disher

Nglish teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance. — Jeff Anderson

I want my students involved in learning to love and question art, not to live in fear of tests. — Marlene Nall Johnt

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. — Ana Monnar

Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated. — Anna Deavere Smith

I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization. — Thomm Quackenbush

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time. — Hasan M. Elahi

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. — Jim Carrey

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. — Allen Ginsberg

I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past. — Sylvia Plath

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher. — Andre Dubus

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers. — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important. — Jayne Anne Phillips

I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot. — Sarah Dessen

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material, — Eric Mazur

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it. — Valentino Garavani

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually. — Kathy Acker

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. — M.H. Abrams

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. — Kathy Acker

Quitters never win and winners never quit. This is what I teach my students on a daily basis. I encourage my students to never give up. — Pamela G. Bowers

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students. — Eula Biss

I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs. — Jill Biden

I feel that is more important than my work, the influence I have on my students. — Ruth Bernhard

I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year — Karan Johar

I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated. — Lowell Bergman

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art. — Andrew Hoberek

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry. — Rudolph A. Marcus

My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be? — Frederick Lenz

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically. — Mark Takano

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer. — Leni Zumas

I always forgave my students, like Jesus. — Bikram Choudhury

Do not look so happy. I tell you ahead of time. All my students despise me. — Jandy Nelson

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days. — Anton Chekhov

You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students-how to write piercingly. — Aldous Huxley

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that. — Cary Elwes

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.' — Jack Horner

I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them. — Mary Ellen Mark

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it. — Tony D'Souza

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together ... You are my heroes. — Tom Harkin

AB=(1/4)((A+B)2-(A-B)2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately I have to remind my current students how to prove it. — Ronald Graham

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. — Wally Lamb

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. — Theodore Sturgeon

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product. — Maxine Hong Kingston

My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students. — Jane McGonigal

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down. — James Lipton

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk. — Marilynne Robinson

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well. — John Baldessari

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself. — Jim Goldberg

I told my students that the greatest liability they will have is old saints who never matured, — Neil T. Anderson

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take. — B.K.S. Iyengar

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful. — Alan Lightman

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them. — Arno Penzias

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting. — Bob Ross

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble. — Samuel Mockbee

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left. — Victoria Chang

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have windows with trees in them. — Bel Kaufman

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent. — Jack Kirby

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students. — Hilda Solis

I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person! — Susan Nagel