Students Quotes · Page 27

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Across Massachusetts, there are many talented and inspiring educators doing for their students what their predecessors did for me.

— Charlie Baker

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified…

— Neil Young

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

— Bruno Bettelheim

I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away…

— Zubin Mehta

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have…

— Walter Isaacson

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The…

— Randy Pausch

The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate…

— Karl Jaspers

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

— Horace Mann

In my own research, teaching and consulting experience I have to combine lessons from the field in a relatively inductive and open…

— Yves Doz

It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run…

— Paul Krugman

The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their…

— Theo Jansen

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know…

— Louis Menand

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.

— Nick Offerman

I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

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

Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's…

— Pierre Alechinsky

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I…

— Albert Camus

“It’s not that I had more important things to do or that I didn’t want to help with whatever problems were interfering…

— Tucker Elliot

I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory [of General Relativity]—it almost hates you yourself! How am I to' provide for my students?…

— Paul Ehrenfest

He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.

— Frederick Lenz

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be…

— Major Owens