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If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

~ Alan Sugar

If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

~ Geoffrey Canada

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

~ Joan Cusack

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

~ Niall Ferguson

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

~ Marilyn Hacker

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

~ Josef Albers

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

~ Nancy Pearcey

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

~ Harvey Keitel

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

~ Jay Mohr

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

~ Doris Roberts

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

~ Kate Clinton

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

~ Joseph Campbell

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

~ Edmund Burke

Moving on is not closure. It's not neat, and it's not about turning the page. It is about moving on, but it doesn't mean that you've left something behind.

~ Thomas Gibson

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

~ Paul Anka

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

~ Leo Buscaglia

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

~ Phylicia Rashad

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

~ Max Lerner

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

~ Lebron James

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

~ Chinua Achebe

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

~ Patti Davis

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

~ Mike Murdock

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

~ Curtis Joseph

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

~ Pat Riley

When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

~ Tommy Lee

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

~ Steve Case

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

~ Winston Churchill

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

~ Norman Schwarzkopf

When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.

~ Chris Gibson

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

~ Swami Vivekananda

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

~ Sara Blakely

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

~ Marcus Buckingham

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

~ Dhani Jones

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

~ Vint Cerf

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

~ Shemar Moore

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

~ Isabel Allende

One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.

~ George Osborne

You have to know your strengths and weaknesses. If you don't have a particular strength, you need to go out and replace that.

~ Tilman J. Fertitta

God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.

~ Bethany Hamilton