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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
Oscar Robertson

Game, Basketball, Talking

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
Iain Banks

Work, Means, Week

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.
James Levine

Age, Naturally, Inclined

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.
Laurieann Gibson

Love, Teacher, Amazing

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Understand, Basis

What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.
Rick Santorum

Problems, Point, Present

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
Bill O'Reilly

Famous, Powerful, Public

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.
Eliza Dushku

Politics, Women, Mom

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
Beverly Cleary

Love, Best, Children

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
Muhammad Yunus

Country, Suffering, While

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.
Giancarlo Esposito

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
Jenna Bush

Mom, Children, Writing

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.
Jenna Bush

Hope, Writing, Continue

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.
John Engler

Michigan, Classrooms

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
Neil LaBute

Men, Knows, Company

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile

Forget, Vanity, Blockhead

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
Michael N. Castle

Education, School, Service

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.
Michael N. Castle

Life, Success, Reality

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.
Michael Gove

Children, Pride, Speak

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.
Scott Thompson

Start, Fathers, Punch

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
Ron Reagan

Kindness, Compassion, Fact

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
Edsger Dijkstra

Life, Effective, Formal

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
Marilyn Hacker

Writing, Living, Creative

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
Marilyn Hacker

Friendship, Mean, Friends

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.
Marilyn Hacker

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
Edward Sapir

Learning, Study, Secret

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.
Tim Gunn

Hurt, Person, Learned

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.
Tim Gunn

Before, Building, Classroom

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.
Tim Gunn

Mean, Found, Interested

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.
Tim Gunn

Design, Fashion, Mentioned

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