Hampton Sides Quotes

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'

Teachers have been some of the most important people in my career.

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

One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So instead of taking courses, I've been very lucky in that I found teachers - scientists, especially - who were willing to teach me what I needed to know, whether it was about genetically modified crops or how photosynthesis works, and so on. I just find my teachers and don't have to pay for my education.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

Any great teacher is a great student.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

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.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

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

When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose name was Carol Parsinan, a wonderful teacher. And Carol did a really great thing for me. She taught me more than anyone.

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

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.