Quotes About Impact

It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teacher's job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you're not in it, there's a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

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.

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

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it

That teacher teaches best who teaches least.

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

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.

Computers aren't magic; teachers are.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.

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

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.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

People who don't count won't count.