Aaron Elkins quotes

Aaron Elkins quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.”
-- Aaron Elkins

Source : Aaron Elkins (2014). “Dead Men's Hearts”, p.51, Open Road Media

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“I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.”
“The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.”
“Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.”
“If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.”
“As I often tell my students, the person youâ€™ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.”
“I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.”
“You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.”
“Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.”
“In a dream you are never eighty.”
“At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.”

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