Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs.… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Biffy said, off the cuff, "Or we could find a replacement queen." "Volunteering for the position?" "Why, Professor, is that wittiness I… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
So,” sneered Fudge, recovering himself, “you intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?” “Merlin’s beard, no,”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Professor Trelawney: "Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!" Harry Potter:… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
In an increasingly complex world, with courseloads becoming heavier and heavier, shouldn't we be opting for more accountability when it comes to… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from… — Gerry Schwartz Copy Share Image
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle— Flint alongside her —poke him in the eye, Angelina —it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of… — Tom Wigley Copy Share Image
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image