A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
John Henrik Clarke

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Amartya Sen

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
Nina Simone

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
Max Beerbohm

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Rosa Luxemburg

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
Felix Adler

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
Antonio Tabucchi

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
Antonio Tabucchi

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
Buddy Rich

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
Jet Li

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
Harry Callahan

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

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
Bodhidharma

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
Norman MacCaig

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Allan Bloom