Lecturer Quotes

• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

  Kanye West

  Art, Oxford, Goal

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Past, Chains That Bind

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 11, 2013

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• The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

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• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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• Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Ocean, Sea

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Wise, Contribution To Society

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 20, 2013

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• The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.

  Terence McKenna

  Understanding, Atmosphere, Trying

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• Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.

  Wilbert J. McKeachie

  Teaching, Simple, Essence

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• Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Past, Forgiving

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 14, 2013

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• God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Creative, Nouns

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 04, 2011

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Believe

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 30, 2013

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• The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

  Virginia Woolf

  Notebook, Teacher, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

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• Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

  Marianne Williamson

  Optimistic, Adversity, Dark

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 22, 2010

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• The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Lying, Miracle, Comfort

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 28, 2013

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• if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !

  Dale Carnegie

  Happy, Want, True Happiness

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• Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Heart, Choices

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Faith, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 01, 2011

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

  Dale Carnegie

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.53, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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