Lectures famous quotes

His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.
-- Aaron Elkins

#Lectures #Students #Aging

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
-- Albert Camus

#Teacher #Teaching #Lectures

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs Anaïs Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees.
-- Anais Nin

#Names #Trying #Lectures

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
-- Aristotle

#Lectures #Heard

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
-- Ayelet Waldman

#Giving #Lectures #Stranger

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
-- Barbara Mertz

#Teaching #Opportunity #Lectures

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.
-- Betty Smith

#People #Firsts #Lectures

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
-- Bill Ayers

#Writing #Lectures #Silent

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.
-- Billy Graham

#Suffering #Lectures #Doe

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.
-- Brian Herbert

#Hurt #Lessons #Lectures

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
-- Dan Jenkins

#Golf #Balls #Lectures

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
-- Daniel Coit Gilman

#Lectures #Duty #University

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Voice #Comedian #Lectures

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.
-- David Gelernter

#Book #Style #Lectures

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.
-- Denis Waitley

#Mind #Important #Lectures

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.
-- Donald A. Norman

#Giving #Lectures #Clear

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
-- Ehud Barak

#Venture #Lectures #Finance

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
-- Eric Mazur

#Learning #Knowledge #Lectures

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.
-- George Orwell

#Song #Military #Lectures

Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.
-- George Stigler

#Mother #Lectures #Usual

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
-- George Wald

#Information #Faces #Lectures

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
-- George Wald

#Realization #Lectures #Realizing

My parents never really lecture me.
-- Georgia May Jagger

#Parent #Lectures

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
-- Gregory Peck

#Axes #Want #Lectures

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
-- Hal Boyle

#Lectures #Habit #Professors

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
-- Hari Kunzru

#Criticism #Wish #Lectures

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
-- Harold H. Greene

#Mean #Lectures #Poor

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.
-- Hendrik Lenstra

#Math #Two #Lectures

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.
-- Hermann Minkowski

#Science #Lectures

I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.
-- Howard Pyle

#Generosity #Who Cares #Lectures

The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!
-- Jeremy Clarkson

#Democracy #World #Lectures

I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards.
-- John Barrowman

#Gay #Men #Lectures

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.
-- John Edensor Littlewood

#Feelings #Lectures #Helping

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.
-- John Gould

#Benefits #Lectures #Numb

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).
-- Joshua Kendall

#Teaching #Class #Lectures

I am going to kill you," he hissed. She gulped. "Don't you want to lecture me first?" He stared at her with a heavy dose of stupefaction. "I take that back," he said with precisely clipped words. "First I am going to strangle you, and then I am going to kill you." "Here?" she asked doubtfully, looking around. "Won't my dead body look suspicious in the morning?
-- Julia Quinn

#Morning #Firsts #Lectures

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
-- Ken Livingstone

#Country #Rights #Lectures

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.
-- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

#Faces #Lectures #Slap In The Face

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.
-- Lord Finesse

#Rap #Hip Hop #Lectures

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
-- Magdi Yacoub

#Heart #Giving #Lectures

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.
-- Malcolm Bradbury

#Good Friend #Lectures #Prison

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
-- Martha Plimpton

#Care #Lectures #Morality

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
-- Mary MacLane

#Desire #Goes On #Lectures

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.
-- Mary Oliver

#Doe #Rooms #Lectures

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
-- Max Weber

#Integrity #Intellectual #Lectures

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
-- Michael Faraday

#Lectures #Physics #Teach

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
-- Mortimer Adler

#Teacher #Mind #Lectures

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.
-- Raymond Cattell

#Reading #Lectures #My Favorite

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.
-- Robert B. Laughlin

#Two #Tears #Lectures

I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.
-- Robert Bateman

#Giving #Relaxation #Lectures

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.
-- Robert Hass

#Giving #Want #Lectures

Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out — that sort of thing.
-- Robert M. Sapolsky

#Elephants #Way #Lectures

If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.
-- Robin Ince

#Matter #Royal #Lectures

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
-- Robin Williams

#Business #Giving #Lectures

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.
-- Rush Limbaugh

#Teacher #Events #Lectures

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
-- Sinclair Lewis

#Looks #Lectures #Audience

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
-- Stanislav Grof

#School #Sitting #Lectures

Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk
-- Takehiko Inoue

#Fighting #Lectures #Slam

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.
-- Theodore Tilton

#Book #Lectures #Journalism

I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
-- Vance Havner

#Honesty #Hypocrite #Lectures

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
-- Viktor E. Frankl

#Berlin #Lectures #Ministry

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
-- Walt Whitman

#Voice #Want #Lectures

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
-- Witold Gombrowicz

#Lectures #Distinguished #Valet

I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.
-- Woody Harrelson

#People #Lectures #Sometimes

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.
-- Anant Agarwal

#Games #Theatre #Lectures

We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to travel from America back to England with him on the same boat. It was a very slow boat. I think it took us about seven days to cross the Atlantic.
-- Warren MacKenzie

#Thinking #America #Lectures

You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.
-- Adel al-Jubeir

#Thinking #People #Lectures

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.
-- Max Blumenthal

#Needs #Ongoing #Lectures

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
-- Scott Thompson

#People #Want #Lectures

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.
-- James H. Boren

#Ships #Lectures #Navigation