Students famous quotes
05-15-2025
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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 -
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
-- Abdul Kalam -
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
-- Abraham Flexner -
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.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
As I often tell my students, the person you’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.
-- Adyashanti -
Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background,
-- Ahmad Jamal -
I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
-- Al McGuire -
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
-- Alain de Botton -
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
-- Alan Dundes -
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.
-- Alan Dundes -
Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.
-- Alan Hassenfeld -
As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.
-- Alex Caceres -
What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
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.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.
-- Alfie Kohn -
John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.
-- Alfie Kohn -
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.
-- Allan Bloom -
The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.
-- Allan Bloom -
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
-- Allan Bloom -
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
-- Allan Bloom -
A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.
-- Alma Gluck -
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
-- Amartya Sen -
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.
-- Anibal Cavaco Silva -
I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.
-- Anna Popplewell -
Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
-- Anne Campbell -
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
-- Anne Campbell -
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
-- Anne Lamott -
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
-- Anthony Braxton -
I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
-- Anton Ehrenzweig -
The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.
-- Aristotle -
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
-- Arlen Specter -
The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career
-- Arn Tellem -
States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
-- Arne Duncan -
I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
-- Arno Allan Penzias -
The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
-- Arnold Ross -
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
-- Arthur Smith -
I was a good student, but I didn't like school.
-- Ashley Benson -
Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.
-- August Kekule -
You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.
-- Austin Kleon -
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
-- B. F. Skinner -
Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
-- Barack Obama -
For someone who’s made it clear that her life is superior to every other student’s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.
-- Bell Hooks -
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
-- Benjamin Barber -
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
-- Bernie Worrell -
It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.
-- Big Sean -
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
-- Bill Cosby -
A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.
-- Bill Cosby -
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.
-- Bill Lear -
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
-- Bill Moyers -
A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.
-- Bill Parcells -
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
-- Bill Viola -
I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.
-- Bob Inglis -
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
-- Bob Ross -
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
-- Branford Marsalis -
People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.
-- Brett Weston -
I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
-- Brian Tracy -
An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
-- Bruce Lee -
I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.
-- Bruce Lee -
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
-- Bruce Sterling -
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
-- Buffalo Bill -
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
-- Camille Paglia -
The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.
-- Carl David Anderson -
I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."
-- Carla Gugino -
It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.
-- Carol Ann Tomlinson -
Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.
-- Carol Ann Tomlinson -
The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
-- Carol S. Dweck -
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.
-- Charles Finch -
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
-- Charles Kuralt -
Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.
-- Charlie Worsham -
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
-- Christopher Alexander -
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
-- Christopher Parker -
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
-- Clifford Geertz -
I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
-- Colin Farrell -
There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.
-- Condoleezza Rice -
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
-- Conrad Hall -
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
-- Criss Jami -
I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.
-- Cristin Milioti -
I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags.
-- Cynthia Lennon -
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
-- Dabney Coleman -
I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
-- Damien Hirst -
Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.
-- Dan Brown -
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.
-- Daniel J. Siegel -
I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.
-- Darren Aronofsky
