Lecture Quotations

I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama.

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The 'Black in America' series launched on CNN in 2007 as an opportunity to freshen the national conversation on race.

I think I had a fur coat that someone bought me from Portobello Market back in the 1960s, but I think as soon as you think about it, what it is you're wearing, make that connection, then you realise it's just not right. I don't lecture people about it, but it's not something I'd ever wear.

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

One of the panel members during that lecture said he felt it would be very, very easy for a terrorist to enter this country across one of our two borders and bring a backpack-sized weapon of mass destruction across the border.

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

When I lecture kids, I say, 'You've got to be ambitious by the advertising - ambitious. You've got to say, 'See, this product? Maybe I can change the world with this product.'' They look at me like I'm nuts, but that's what you can do.

Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.

Mr. Romney is quick to uphold rules great and small. During primary debates, when his rivals spoke out of turn or exceeded their allotted time, he would sometimes lecture them. When supporters ask Mr. Romney to sign dollar bills or American flags, he refuses and often gives them a little lesson about why doing so is against the law.

Since I am a teacher and I lecture on social change, and on up-leveling people's lives, science fiction's a great place where you can really explore a lot of territory.

I have a piece of evidence the book doesn't have with regards to the Knights Templar. You'll have to come to the lecture to see what it is.

I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis.

He was mighty tickled and was a good kid. But I had to give him a lecture on keeping a phone number to contact someone in case of an emergency.

When they go back and lecture about that material from the textbook, they have a brand-new perspective on what they're talking about.

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

I tell my story not so much to lecture or teach, but rather to open the door for students to be honest with themselves and others. When I was growing up, I had a false idea of what an alcoholic was, and I did not believe I fit the description. I refused help for quite a while after it became clear to others that I had a problem, mostly due to that stereotype I held.

Most of my lecture involves talking about the representations of the models and our full complement will be here April 7.

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

We dragged him to a lecture by Al Gore, kicking and screaming,

We're dealing with young people. I used to lecture my children all the time, too.

we'd visit an art museum in Houston, or a spectacular shoreline vista in Oregon, or attend a political lecture in Boston. And so I found myself getting a special kind of education just witnessing Bill's grasp of what makes our society tick and how business gets done.

Who was I to determine what the strength and conditioning people needed or the medical and rehab people needed or the academic people needed for computers, quiet rooms and lecture halls?

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

We've always taken a special interest in the health of coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. This fascinating lecture is a way we can educate the public about the importance of our coastal environment and its fragility.

Early in 1883, as I have said, I gave my first lecture on social questions, and from that time forward I spoke on these subjects.

The tree-hugging Tolkien freaks, once they get around to seeing the movie and reading the books, tend to go on to read other things that he did. In 1936 he gave a British Academy lecture called Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, which is still one of the most fabulous things that's been written.

When you go from one lecture hall to another or even home for the holidays, there is a desire to be connected, informed and entertained in transit.

I've seen students using it to get to know other students in really large lecture halls. I've seen students using it to flirt and hook up with people. It's a tool for navigating through college life.

It would take years to rehabilitate all of the large lecture classes. We simply do not have the funding from the government.

You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.

Often the notes a professor uses in her research one year become her lecture notes the next, ... Each one of our faculty members is working hard to do truly innovative science.

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

The monitors are sort of windows into the way kids are thinking. You don't want to sit down and lecture them, you want to give them time in this wonderful interactive environment.

There's no fire-and-brimstone lecture (for tonight's game). It's a game we want to win because we want to win our 19th game, and we want to play in the postseason. Not because it's Rice. And that's no disrespect to Rice. I've never coached that way.

We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.

This is the first big lecture that I've taught. I absolutely love teaching.

After the Highland game, I got the lecture from the coaches to shoot more, so I've been trying to be more aggressive on the offensive end. I had my opportunities tonight and my teammates did a good job of getting me the ball.

I like the interactive-ness; visiting artists don't usually interact with students. They usually lecture or provide a show and tell thing, I like being able to interact with the artist.

If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.

In the forehead and the eye The lecture of the mind doth lie.

On a whole, though, the Film Society seeks to get a range of both foreign, independent, and as of last semester, classic films to screen at the Putnam Arts Lecture Hall on campus.

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

It's been great. It's more of a hands-on approach rather than a lecture where you use knowledge from your science classes and put that knowledge to work.

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

They were among the few surviving comfort women -- an estimated 90 percent had been killed while imprisoned. During that emotional lecture I thought of the girl who had disappeared in Shanghai and wanted to explore the possibility that this might have been her fate.

I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

This has weakened his claim to be the one who could lecture other financial ministers on how to run their economies. He should publicly apologize to the IMF staffers whom he scolded last time for being too pessimistic on the U.K.

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

For him to come into town and give a lecture about leadership is an ultimate insult to our intelligence - that's why we're protesting. He's supposed to be a soldier himself, and he sold out our own troops and sent them needlessly into combat. That's horrendous and egregious.

For him to lecture these applicant countries or these accepted members on their way in was really behavior like the worst of what the French complain about in the United States,

It seems the court officers need a bit of a lecture about fundamental rights and their obligation to respect them.

It was right near an air-intake into the building and our three big lecture halls were filled with smoke within a few minutes.

This lecture took place 17 years ago. He is an English citizen. He doesn't live in Austria and he is 68 years old. He is not really dangerous, especially not to Austria.

I am not here to lecture you or to ruin anyone's day. Quite the opposite. I am here to hopefully help make your day and to hopefully help you have a more fulfilling life.

I don't want to lecture him. He's a grown man; he makes his own decisions.

I don't lecture any more; it bores people rigid. I read and I talk. After you teach college for a while, that becomes fairly easy to do. A formal lecture makes people sit up straight and feel like they need to take notes for an exam later, and I don't want them to feel that way.

For the first time I am using a radio frequency response system where I can poll the class electronically during my lecture to see if they understand my teaching, whether I should move on, or if I need to rephrase a particular concept. Many students are unwilling to raise their hands during a large lecture; this system allows them to speak up while remaining anonymous.

If he wants to come to the state capital and lecture my legislature, his message is going to fall on deaf ears. I think they'd stop him at the state line.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.

You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

People are more important than things.

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

Focus on other people, not on yourself.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

The lecture is an opportunity for students to learn about past and present world issues from a man who has incredible first-hand experience.

The lecture was packed, ... The occasion really argued for a bigger space.

Today the university combines many elements - great lectures, study groups, students in the lab - and the lecture piece should be broken off. The very best lectures from India or the U.S. or Britain will be available in streaming video, so students can consume that wherever they want and don't have to go do that all together in one place.

When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.