Quotes About Influence

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

People who don't count won't count.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

Instill respect for teachers.

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.