Suzanne Farrell Quotes

The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start.

Treat everyone like it's still your first job and that we're all just happy to be here.

I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

I will always look to approach every project like it's my first.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

You have to wake up every day ready to start again.

I've opened up my school in California in a beautiful facility on Ventura Boulevard. I'm always in heaven when I'm doing my classes.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Approach every day as if it's a new world, because it IS.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.

America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

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.

The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK.

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.