Quotes About Influence

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Our teachers made such a difference - all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.

Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Teachers are heroes.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.