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• I think it’s easiest to teach by example. My dad didn’t tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings – like a short fuse – but I’ve learned you can’t come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Example, Easiest

• You can’t tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won’t have to go through it.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hopefully, Example

• There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

  Cheryl James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Example

• Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

  Charlton Heston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Example, Dirty

• Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare’s plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

  Charlton Heston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matter, Example, Done

• Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

  Charlton Heston

  Topics in Art, Experience

  Tags in American, Example

• Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedy, Laugh, Example

• For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Example

• For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

  Robert Francis Vaughn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Discipline, Example

• It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Example, Reflection, Ourselves

• You have to check out ‘March of the Penguins’. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

  Rich Lowry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Example, ideal

• That feels great. It feels terrific. It lifts a burden, not just for me but for my family and all those people who support me. People look up to me, and it’s important that I do set the right example.

  A. J. Nicholson

  Topics in Family

  Tags in People, Feeling, Example

• Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Example, Depends

• This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Profound, Example, Meaning

• Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

  Alexander Pope

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Example, Praise, Men

• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Always, Example, Surprise, Common

• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Follows, Produce, Great Men, Example, Journalist

• Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

  Hosea Ballou

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Tends, Example, Spoken

• Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Example, Week

• You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonviolence, Example, Violence