Eileen Myles Quotes

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

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.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Teaching is what I've always done.

I feel like I'd be a really good teacher. I would go for middle school... those high schoolers would be difficult to deal with.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

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

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

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.

I feel really good in the teacher role.

I'm just not a natural teacher.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

Teaching is not the work in which a man can live and grow.