Days Quote by Abhijit Banerjee

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to…

— H. L. Mencken

When you give a lecture you have to really command the audience and you have to keep everyone entertained.

— Florence And The Machine

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

— Howard Pyle

I never know what I'm going to talk about until I get on stage. I never give the same lecture twice, which is why…

— Harlan Ellison

I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking…

— William H. Gass

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

— Nikki Giovanni

I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.

— Patrick Wang

Pretending to concentrate in class so that the teacher won't ask you questions.

— Anonymous

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

— Tim Gunn

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures…

— Stephen Leacock

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands…

— Marilynne Robinson

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

— Marilyn Hacker