Quotes About Passion

I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.

Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

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

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.