Lecture Quotes

191 quotes by 175 authors

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 at… — Stephen Leacock
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either. — Eric Mazur
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist… — Gideon Haigh
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it… — John Edensor Littlewood
Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure… — John Pople
If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out a big snort… — Jack Handey
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must… — Stephen Vizinczey
You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me… — Guglielmo Marconi
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it.… — Robert M. Sapolsky
If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and… — Jim Rohn
Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story. — Jacob Gates
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk:… — Thomas Carlyle
What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a… — Ellen Goodman
The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million,… — Susan Cain
A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener. — Billy Graham
You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road...… — Sophie Kinsella
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to… — Mary Antin
There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lecture on The Darker Side of Chocolate — Sandra Boynton
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst… — Albert Einstein

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