Students Quotes · Page 39

“A student who is becoming better than his master is a bright student; but a student who is becoming better than all…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

— Frederick Lenz

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to…

— Eric Jensen

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

When other students would study after classes, I would go out again to work out and then study in the night.

— Manushi Chhillar

I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids…

— Sebastian Thrun

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

— Bel Kaufman

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

— Jean Houston

Yesterday President Obama traveled to Jamaica, where he will meet with students and Caribbean leaders. Jamaica's such a beautiful place, Obama says…

— Jimmy Fallon

A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of…

— Sai Baba

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality…

— Anthony Trollope

It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…

— John Herschel

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work,…

— Dan Barden

I have a difference with Senator [Bernie] Sanders, who promises free college, which, if you look at the fine print, depends really…

— Hillary Clinton

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Some people see teachers and they associate the feelings of the other students who are present with the teacher. They psychically connect…

— Frederick Lenz

Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist…

— Richard Lewontin

But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have…

— Junot Diaz

I was playing in a band and was approached to score an independent film. I had never done it, but had written…

— Douglas Pipes

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…

— Harold Bloom

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and…

— Elie Wiesel

When I started teaching, I would get miffed if a student asked me to write him or her a recommendation for law…

— Anthony DeCurtis

Consciousness-Based Education is education that is in most ways exactly like regular education, but with the added technique of Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental…

— David Lynch

Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born…

— Gertrude Atherton

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the…

— Sefi Atta

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

— John Deacon

All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.

— K.P. Yohannan

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.

— Gerald Chertavian

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

— Jeanne Shaheen

I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No…

— Anne Bernays

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

— Danny Lyon

I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to…

— Kirstie Alley

1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

— Mas Oyama

The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only…

— Deborah Meier

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

— Cass Sunstein

“Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell…

— John Knowles

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

— Kgalema Motlanthe

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

— Neale Donald Walsch