Tutor – Quotes

My tutor was a

My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That’s when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, This … Read more

I still can\’t understand

I still can’t understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz ‘the Genius’ and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude. Franny Billingsley

The past is necessarily

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor? Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

As a person, when

As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study. Dichen Lachman

If a child is

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach. Deepak Chopra

One can read all

One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water. David Mamet

The Roman philosopher Seneca

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that the abundance of books is a distraction. Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly. Daniel Levitin