The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.
Michael Spence
FatherTeacherTimeManFinance
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
Leslie Fiedler
TeacherGreatStudentKnowQuestion
I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.
Darren Robinson
TeacherDayMeGuitarFriendsFirst
I always wanted to be a designer and always felt surprised as a child when my sister used to deliberate about whether to be a nurse or a teacher.
Matthew Williamson
TeacherChildSisterAlwaysUsed
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
Anne Sullivan
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I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.
Chad Hugo
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
Flip Wilson
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I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'
Miranda Hart
TeacherBeginningSorryEndLesson
I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.
Ken Stott
FatherAgeTeacherMeEnoughYou
A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
Daniel Goleman
WorkMotherGirlTeacherChildMe
When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
Angela Duckworth
TeacherPeopleTeamDriveThinkYou
My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.
Anthony Doerr
ScienceTeacherSchoolMomHigh
I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
Butch Trucks
TeacherCollegeBackGoBecomeMath
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
Felix Adler
TeacherOfficeThanklessPublic
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
Miles Teller
TeacherSchoolHigh SchoolYearNew
If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.
Kel Mitchell
TeacherDramaNowRightHere
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
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On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'
Jeff Kinney
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There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
Audre Lorde
MotherTeacherWomanYourselfKey
I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.
Billy Graham
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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers
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For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.
Lucy Deakins
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Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.
Kristin Gore
TeacherWritingWorldBetterYou
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