Shaun Sipos Quotes

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

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

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

My teachers made me what I am today. I remember they used to instill confidence in me and stress on remaining focused.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.

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

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.

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'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

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

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

Young people need models, not critics.

My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'

That's the potential power of a single voice - a neighbor's, a teacher's, a parent's, a friend's. It can change you, make you feel as if you have a place in the world.

When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.

Because my home life was nuts, I didn't look to my parents for help. I looked to my teachers. They made me who I am. They took on a parental role. They're like celebrities or heroes to me.

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.