Jack Canfield Quotes

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.

I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I wanted to be a teacher.

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

A good teacher is a determined person.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

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

I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.