The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
The only way to know everything is to learn how to think, how to ask questions, how to navigate the world. Students… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was skulking red-eyed through the corridors, lunging out at unsuspecting students and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements -… — Andrew Lau Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential… — Jim Evans Copy Share Image
At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Helmut Walcha was a gifted organist, improviser, and composer! He would play Evensong every week at his church for free, the Dreikönigskirche… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial… — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Whether you struggle to remember a client's name, aspire to learn a new language, or are a student battling to prepare for… — Daniel T. Willingham Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've had some parents ask me to do private birthday parties for their students, which I can't do, but it's an honor… — Raheem Jarbo Copy Share Image
I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
