Lectures Quotations

After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.

When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

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

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.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

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.

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

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

In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me.

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

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.

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

There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.

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

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

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.

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.

When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience, if I can get three people in there I've got a good crowd.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

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.

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

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.

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

In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

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

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.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them.

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

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

I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

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.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

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

More than listening to a hundred lectures or delivering them to others, offering one act as genuine service attracts the Grace of God.

I would deliver lectures that got standing ovations, but later, in the tests and essays, it was clear to me that the students just didn't get it.

But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery.

I lost all my income for the fall because I was supposed to be teaching at Loyola (University) and I also do regular lectures on jazz in New Orleans, ... A number of friends helped me set all this up. ... It's been very moving - the degree of their concern.

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

I always incorporate into my lectures the voices of everyday people and people long excluded from the American narrative,

He gives lectures but no one hears about it.

I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.

I think there always will be the need for the books and the lectures and the classrooms, and the classroom material. And that's where our secret comes in. This is supplemental to that.

I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.

We have 10 of these classrooms complete as of now, and we plan on having 10 more finished before the fall semester begins. These rooms will be able to record the audio of the lectures as well as the writings professors may make on the tablet computer so that they could be distributed to the students.

Those lectures were just terrible, ... I would draw this little rat who was on four legs. Whatever thoughts I had for the day I gave to him. It was therapeutic.

I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

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

Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits and those who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony o

Dr. King's lectures and dialogues stirred the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation. As the anniversary of his birth coincides with the anniversary of No Child Left Behind, we must take this opportunity to speak out to ensure fair implementation and full funding of this landmark law.

Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.

A woman who lived the classical era of Hollywood, Ms. Phillips' experiences were such that her story will forever remain unique, and in my opinion, tremendously fascinating. Phillips' lectures are compelling to not just film majors, but anyone with an appreciation and fondness for the power and magic of the moving image.

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

In 1982, I was made a justice of the peace for life. I received two or three lectures at Stirling University on my role and this perhaps lasted six hours.

I had been in Austria that day, giving lectures attacking government economic policy. You see, the regime already could not control its critics.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

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

I am assuming that every game that we play in our division is pretty significant in terms of the kind of rivalry it represents, ... All of the lectures that I give are about thinking about this game this week and not the history of the series, who won in 1947 ... whether we go to Niagara Falls ... because all of that stuff doesn't matter.

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

For someone who does as many things as he does -- edits, writes columns, writes books, lectures -- he is calm and very relaxed with a great wry sense of humor about things.

My parents never really lecture me.

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.

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

I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.

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

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

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

The idea is that we feel like a community. We do not graduate many students at a time because some of our members might take a session off, but they still come to our free lectures or events that promote any other member's works. No one ever stops being a part of our community. We are all very centered around the philosophy of being a writer support group.

You will be able to stream lectures to students that couldn't afford to be at the site.

The cherry tree myth is just that. When I do lectures I bring an old hatchet and say we just found this under an old cherry tree we had to take down. George Washington loved cherry trees. He put in a Cherry Walk of espaliered cherries in the Upper Garden. He did some pruning but not with a hatchet.

The lectures are intended to offer the students an opportunity to learn more about Hispanic countries and their splendid culture.

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

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.

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

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.

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.

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

It's useless to lecture a human.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

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

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.

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

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

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

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.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.