Quotes About Influence

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

At our best, we are all teachers

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

The nerds are running the world now.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

Rabbi means teacher, and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.