Jon Hamm Quotes

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.

If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

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'm appreciative that young males can look up to myself.

At our best, we are all teachers

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.

I like to do stuff for my brothers and sisters to appreciate because they look up to me, and for other kids around the world who want to get into acting or who just want to have somebody to look up to.

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

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

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.