In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Jacques Barzun
Some Similar Quotes
  1. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light. - Marie Lu

  2. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

  3. A thirst for water may be an oasis in your day. - Anthony T.Hincks

  4. Your smile is what gets me through the day and my dreams of you are what gets me through the night. - Anthony T. Hincks

  5. It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. - Jodi Picoult

More Quotes By Jacques Barzun
  1. Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

  2. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  3. Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

  4. Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

  5. What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable quality, just pure art.

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