Emerson Fittipaldi Quotes

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

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.

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

Teachers are important in this world.

I've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.

Park Bo Young was like a teacher to me. Personally, we were good friends, but at the same time, I admired her acting and learned a lot from her.

I've learnt so much from Mithunda.

All my heroes are teachers.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

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.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

At our best, we are all teachers

Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.