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- A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
- The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
- Frederick William Robertson
- An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- You teach best what you most need to learn.
- Richard Bach
- The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
- Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
- Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.
- Thomas J. Watson
- We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892 - 1964)
- The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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