People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity;… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But… — Edward Lee Thorndike Copy Share Image
“His lectures were always well attended, and not just because he imparted so much wisdom and knowledge: he also managed to do… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot… — Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned,… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been… — Billy Casper Copy Share Image
I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive,… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even… — Layman Pang Copy Share Image
Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with… — Lord Finesse Copy Share Image
I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight.… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image