Cramming Quotes

• I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Bible, Witty

  "George Carlin, R.I.P." by David Gibson, www.beliefnet.com. June 2008.

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• Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Real, Buddhism, Issues

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, School, Pay The Price

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.24, Mango Media Inc.

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• If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining

  Max Brooks

  Rain, Believe, Procrastination

  "The Zombie Survival Guide". Book by Max Brooks, July 19, 2010.

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• Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

  William James

  Teaching, Learning, Association

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.103, Nuvision Pubns

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

  Andy Stanley

  Character, Tests, Pops

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.162, Multnomah

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• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, School, Years

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

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• I don't have a strict diet. It's all about cramming in as many calories into my system as I possibly can. To be honest with you, I have a tough time keeping weight on.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Time Keeping, Tough Times

  Interview with Patrick Mauro, www.ign.com. July, 2005.

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• Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.

  Neil Young

  Thinking, People, Way

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• Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

  Percival Lowell

  Thinking, Ill, Stimulants

  "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Preface, 1906.

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• You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

  Dolly Parton

  Atheist, Deathbed

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• Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

  Shannon Hale

  Two, Cherries

  Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

  Pythagoras

  Vegetarianism, Wickedness, Body

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• Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

  Nathan Fillion

  Children, Growing Up, Reading

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• Distraction and procrastination come in a variety of flavors... when I'm distracted and I walk over and stare out the window, it's a very different experience than when I feed the distraction by cramming in a few emails or make a phone call.

  Linda Stone

  Procrastination, Phones, Different Experiences

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• One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.

  David Walker

  Mother, Father, Grateful

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• The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.

  Pythagoras

  Mother, Sorry, Philosophical

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• What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life-here, now, to this? Was all my youth-the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals-meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?

  William Broyles, Jr.

  Football, Workout, School

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• He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wish, Demand, Examination

  "The Dispossesed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1978.

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• I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tremendous amount of time to work out, so I find myself cramming in a cardio because that's all I can fit in. I think that if you don't have a lot of time, that it's the cleanest way to burn a few calories.

  Alison Sweeney

  Thinking, Work Out, Important

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• It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teaching, Practice, Principles

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Running, Dark

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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