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.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals ' the ones who somehow know how to teach.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.
I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen ' are distinctively like their hosts so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement all success all achievement in real life grows.
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries in Catholic countries a successful person is a sinner.
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director you're shopping - you're picking this actor you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.