A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
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A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I'm not as physically gifted as some of the other guys. I can't jump like Hassan (Adams), but I try ...
BRET BRIELMAIER Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
THOMAS CARLYLE A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
HENRY B. ADAMS A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLE In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the...
BEN SHAPIRO As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyo...
CLIVE JAMES There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT somethin...
STEVE MARABOLI The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as ...
SADE ADU As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
SAMANTHA MORTON A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI He's just a tremendous player and is such a naturally gifted athlete.
TONY CATANZARO As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment w...
JAMES CAMERON We're different in that we have independent study, a teacher-supported program for parents who are h...
JAN GONZALES This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as ...
KATHY CYR He's clearly a very special, gifted player.
GREG ANDRULIS David is an extremely gifted and charismatic actor.
KATE HARWOOD In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite u...
FRANK RICH But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, ...
THOMAS PYNCHON Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of fact...
HENRY ADAMS In some very rare cases, an opposite-sex pair was born, and they always mated one another. Disturbin...
BELINDA MCBRIDE As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
NATALIE GULBIS We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he u...
SHELDON KOPP These astoundingly beautiful photographs give a rounded portrait of Ansel Adams the person - as arti...
MALCOLM ROGERS Millions of geniuses live and die undiscovered because they don't discover what they're truly gifted...
BRYAN INDIGO What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way ...
CHUCK GRASSLEY She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM There is a sacred duty, which you are divinely gifted to performed.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Henry Adams and the Making of America,
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Henry Adams and the Making of America
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you ...
BERNHARD SCHLINK It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by...
DAVID WHYTE I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deser...
TIM ROBBINS You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young ...
MIKE NICHOLS Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
ETHEL WATERS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of th...
ALLEN GINSBERG Happiness is a state of mind that only can be gifted by you.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Courage cannot be gifted to you, but it is a choice you make.
VISHWAS CHAVAN For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at t...
KAJOL As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
KAJOL And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.
JAKE MCLAUGHLIN Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
DMX As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more vers...
RHYS DARBY As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.
GERHARD SCHRODER I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen ...
CHARISMA CARPENTER As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
ALAN GARNER Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.
SANJAY DUTT As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
ACTION BRONSON I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere...
CHARLEY PRIDE I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant ed...
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
GILBERT HIGHET He's so gifted. Besides singing, Patrick is a wonderful pianist and songwriter. He's just really goo...
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