Lectures Quotes

• Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Moving, Science, Order

  Gian-Carlo Rota (2008). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.196, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiration, Giving, Charity

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

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• As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

  George Wald

  Information, Faces, Coming Back

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• When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Philosophy, Years, Listening

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• My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

  Mary MacLane

  Desire, Goes On, Intention

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• Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Two, Tears, Losing

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• We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Respect, Military, Safety

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• I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

  Dylan Thomas

  Development, Week, Modern

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Good Morning, Travel, Taken

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

  George Wald

  Realization, Realizing, Dialogue

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• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Islamic, Play, People

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• Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

  Bob Woodward

  Money, Giving, Literature

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• When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

  Philip Emeagwali

  College, Eight, Years

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• You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

  Donald A. Norman

  Giving, Clear, Catch Me

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• I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

  Lionel Blue

  Sympathy, Lessons, Sticks

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• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

  Natalie Portman

  New Year, Party, Sitting

  "Biography: Natalie Portman". www.thecinemaholic.com. January 20, 2018.

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• Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

  Rowan Atkinson

  People, Use, Lawyer

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• I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Shy, Literature

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• Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

  Enrico Fermi

  Confused, Levels, Statistics

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• Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

  Hal Boyle

  Habit, Professors, Discussion

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• A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

  John Gould

  Benefits, Numb, Ends

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• You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

  Harold H. Greene

  Mean, Two Extremes, Poor

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• When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Looks, Audience

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• It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Education, Airplane

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