Vidal Sassoon Quotes

I touch the future. I teach.

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

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.

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

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

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot of fun and creatively invigorating.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

Teachers, you are the shapers of thought and the molders of sentiment, not of this age and of this generation alone, but of ages and generations to come.