You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.