Lectures Quotes - Page 10

• The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  New Year, Light, Years

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• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Book, Hero

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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• I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Thinking, Years, Class

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• Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

  David Wolfe

  Events, Dinner, Eating

  "David Wolfe Interview | World authority on raw foods, superfoods and natural healing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Littles, Way

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• I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

  John McCain

  Needs, Life Is, Killing

  "Election 2000: In Final Debate Before New Hampshire Primary, Republican Candidates Engage in 90-Minute Slug-Fest". cnn.com. January 27, 2000.

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• I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even a speck of dust. From "Thus we have heard," to "This I believe," All is but an array of unreal names.

  Layman Pang

  Believe, Dust, Names

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• I see my job as trying to entertain you, to be balanced in some way, and morally responsible. I don't want to glorify a killer. I don't want to glorify a rapist. I don't want to do those things, but on the other hand I don't want to lecture to you, either.

  Sydney Pollack

  Jobs, Hands, Trying

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• I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

  Henry Rollins

  Teacher, Kings, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

  Gary Zukav

  Meditation, Physics, Century

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• The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

  Charles Darwin

  Edinburgh, Dull, Chemistry

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11717, Delphi Classics

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• My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reform, Use, Pay

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.54, Graphic Arts Books

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• If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Passion, Helping Others

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• We need to have lectures about why we can't have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and Coke.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Needs, Coke, Mayonnaise

  "Paolo Di Canio ridiculed as 'managerial charlatan' by Martin O'Neill" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2013.

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• As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific information provided in classroom lectures or assigned textbooks, but from the values obtained in active engagement in meaningful issues. We achieve for ourselves only as we appreciate the problems and concerns of others-and only as we see our own lives as part of a much greater social purpose.

  Manning Marable

  Meaningful, Educational, Men

  Manning Marable (1997). “Black liberation in conservative America”, South End Pr

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• You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.

  Dana Gould

  Guy, Ponytails, Convincing

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• Every weekend, I would get the drunk driving lecture. Of course, Dad drank and drove all the time. I guess it wasn't a lecture; it was helpful tips from the master.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Weekend, Drunk

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

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• What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family, those times when I am with my children, grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my very close friends, as well as when I am with my extended family in each one of my lectures and power journeys. My greatest joy is just to be alive!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Brother, Children, Journey

  Source: www.awaken.com

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• I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Heart, Mean

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

  Jeremy Renner

  Want

  Source: screenrant.com

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• When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Egypt, Order, People

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in some way, a bit of a lecture. I can see how that's not something that would be enticing for you to watch in a stand-up hour.

  David Cross

  Watches, Would Be, Way

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, and that unwillingness to learn from Authority that comes from making almost verbatim lecture notes and handing them back to the professor.

  Anthony Standen

  Learning, Humility, Science

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.

  Andy Lally

  People, Finals, Video

  Interview with Shane and Sia Barbi, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.

  Tom Robbins

  Girl, Odds, Two

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