Benefits Quote by John Gould Download Open image “A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.” — John Gould ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Benefits Ends Lectures Numb Occasions
When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“When you've got the upper hand, don't lose it by giving a lecture.” — Ichiro Sakaki 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 passing through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow instruction from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend… — Daniel Coit Gilman Copy Share Image
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble. — John Gould Copy Share Image
Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two… — John Gould Copy Share Image
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth… — John Gould Copy Share Image
Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The… — John Gould Copy Share Image
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had… — John Gould Copy Share Image
What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape,… — John Gould Copy Share Image
I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to… — John Gould Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
![“[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fe/pico-iyer-1252_benefits_the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i_678.jpg)
