A Quote by Deborah Meier

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

Deborah Meier

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Learning Listening Mostly Teaching Telling

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Deborah Meier
American - Leader
Born: April 6, 1931

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

Tim O'Brien

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

Adam Gopnik

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Pat Metheny

I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery.

Patrick Stump

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

D. H. Lawrence

The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.

Elizabeth Hawes

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

Dennis Ritchie

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

John Barth

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

Bill McKibben

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

Jane Harman

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims

Anne McCaffrey

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

Anne McCaffrey

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.