Teaching Quotes

Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are — to yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Who you allow into your life, mind and heart are among the most important decisions you will ever make.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When you carry a frown you will see more frowns, when you carry a smile you will see more smiles.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!

~ Bryant Mcgill

The old saying that, you are what you eat extends beyond the body, and includes experiences.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Allow sunshine and light into your rooms and life!

~ Bryant Mcgill

Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you — you will blow right by their grip, you will effortlessly flow to safety.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Quit waiting for others to give to you, it is not going to happen.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The real zombie-apocalypse is the pandemic of drama and mediocrity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We understand why it is better to teach a starving man to fish, but a repertoire course is worse than handing a a fish to a starving man. Our students are not starving; if anything, they are drowning in a sea of information. So a survey course is more like handing a giant box of chocolates to a fat, rich man.

~ José Antonio Bowen

Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

~ Adele Devine

The world's only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I want to make it clear before we begin that I think your purpose is to learn and mine is to help you to learn, or to make you learn, though I doubt either of you has to be made. I have very little interest in writing out progress reports on you, or sticking to form charts, or anything else that interferes with our basic purposes. If there is anything you want to learn and have the necessary background to handle, I'll be ready to help you whether or not it is something that formally falls among the things I'm supposed to teach you. If you don't have the background, I'll help you get it. In return, I want you to do something for me. It's been many years since I was last a tutor, so I expect you to point out to me when I fail to observe some ritual that Mr. Quince holds essential. Fair enough?

~ Alexei Panshin

We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

~ Jennifer Chiaverini

Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.

~ Andy Stanley

The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.

~ José Antonio Bowen

Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You can not teach art, it's not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.

~ Sabina Nore

I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

~ Rick Riordan

Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that's what will make our students succeed in the 21st century

~ Samer Chidiac

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

~ Henry Edward Armstrong

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.

~ Hermann Hesse

A Great Teacher is like a fountain; she draws from the still, deep waters of personal growth and professional knowledge to serve others from her abundant overflow.

~ Wynn Godbold

We teachers break our bodies to give you a shirt that you will wear in the future, to conferences, to presidential speeches, to autograph signings. That is up to you and if you can do that for at least in a little thank to us. Then thank you, thank you all.

~ Pedro A. Pérez Raymond

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

~ William Zinsser

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

~ Adele Devine

Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words and assignments but also by the manner of our words and the ways we ourselves already embody the assignments we give.

~ Zack Eswine