Teaching Quotes - Page 145

Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.

We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two or three years it was heady. I was discovering that I could do something and do it well. Be useful to people. It was exhilarating, sort of like the first two weeks of being in love with somebody, and then it becomes like the third bite of pizza. The first bite is wonderful. The second bite is not disappointing. The third? Meh. You get used to it.

The path you're on looks different when you turn around.

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

Crawling still gets you there.

It's more fun to color outside the lines.

The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.

You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

I'm very lucky that I have people styling my hair and teaching me how to work with it, but it wasn't always like that. Growing up, I had extremely wavy and thick hair and that can be very overwhelming - you end up with the same ponytail every day.

Some of the reasons why Muslims would look down on America or even countries that have democracy, is because that's what they've been taught all their life. And it's not really their fault if you think about it, it's their government's fault for teaching people that America, them over there across the ocean, they're the devil.

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.