Jill Telford Quotes & Sayings

Just do what makes sense. — Jill Telford

It doesn't matter the materials but what you do and how you interact. Relationships are the most important in the art of teaching. A school can have the most beautiful "stuff" but it's the care and commitment of a teacher. What matters most is a true teacher with the real stuff inside and helping others discover that real stuff inside themselves. — Jill Telford

Yesterday I smiled, tomorrow never came and today is what I'm living. — Jill Telford

Change? Start by keeping a small promise. — Jill Telford

Don't just read to read. Read to understand. — Jill Telford

Do the thing that scares you. — Jill Telford

Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last. — Jill Telford

There is no way to clearly capture or sum up life ... when fully lived. — Jill Telford

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. — Jill Telford

While thinking about who you are and how you are alive is powerful; feeling who you are and how you are alive is even more powerful. — Jill Telford

A few lessons learned as a teacher: I've learned that if you whisper, children will listen ... a scribble can be anything (I mean anything!) a monster, a cat, a mom, a dad
our job is to ask to find out and pay attention
usually the most challenging student needs the most challenges to keep them learning and engaged
most of all we must care and the rest handles itself. xo — Jill Telford

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate. — Jill Telford

Forget the American dream ... whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night ... the thing that makes you happy ... the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don't label it a hobby or what you do in your spare time type of thing ... label that thing you do the thing you love to do. The thing you were born to do. When you stop doing what you love you lose a huge part of yourself. Don't get lost. — Jill Telford

The only thing we should scream into the world is love. — Jill Telford

Write as though your life depended on it. — Jill Telford

People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one? — Jill Telford

My heart is bigger than my fist. — Jill Telford

A poem a day keeps the doctor away. — Jill Telford

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don't care what it is. Create it. — Jill Telford

Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one? — Jill Telford

They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners ... I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children — Jill Telford

I never wanted a too die for house, or a too die for car. I always wanted a too die for life. — Jill Telford

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived. — Jill Telford

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child. — Jill Telford

An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself. — Jill Telford

Don't ask me what it means; ask me what it felt. — Jill Telford

Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way. — Jill Telford

I wish we lived in a world where we'd be able to survive off our talents not money — Jill Telford

The only reality is the now. Why live in the tomorrows and the yesterdays? Live now. — Jill Telford

I don't really enjoy experiencing pain. No one does. But we will become less human if we learn to detach ourselves from one another to the point that when we experience death of a beautiful being (our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, our brothers, our soul mates, our friends etc.) that it will not bother us that we will not feel. But see that's suppression. It will bother us somewhere deep inside. So, love someone. Hold them tight. Don't fear the loss. Fear the part of being too afraid to love someone. Love Everyone. It's inevitable: we all die. Thats the ugly part of life. But Love and being alive is so beautiful and so strong that the love, the memories stay even in death. Life is love, life is being alive to feel pain. The love the beautiful love always remains. Love. Life. Joy. Peace — Jill Telford

Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe. — Jill Telford

Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly. — Jill Telford

You gotta show kids YOU'RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you're not afraid of the "monsters" then they too will stand up even when the lights are off. — Jill Telford

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that! — Jill Telford

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it. — Jill Telford

The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom. — Jill Telford

Don't ask me what it means; ask me how it felt. — Jill Telford

Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real. — Jill Telford