#cher

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bid #does #enter #his #house

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#am #i #i am #i have learned #intolerant

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? ↗

— William Gibson

#any #anyone #child #demand #does

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#detailed #english #english teacher #father #got

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

— John Glover

#classroom #front #i #imagine #people

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#before #careful #hands #injurious #likely

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers? ↗

— Martin Goldsmith

#be nice #expect #give #her #kind

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#belief #captured #cherry #conservation #could

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#america #american #consumer #democracy #living

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#advice #grave #joke #more #sometimes