Lectures Quotes - Page 3

• I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Encouragement, Book, Eight

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

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• A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

  Mark Twain

  Faith, Confidence, Religious

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Reading, People, Giving

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

  Howard Barker

  Writing, Dark, Light

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• When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

  Marcel Achard

  Funny, Humor, People

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• I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters

  Art Linkletter

  Thinking, Matter, Today

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• I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Distinguished, Valet

  Witold Gombrowicz, Dominique de Roux (1973). “A kind of testament”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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• You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Country, Opportunity, People

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• At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

  Ulrich Walter

  Believe, Giving, Doe

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• People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

  Ben Elton

  People, Littles, Firsts

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• So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

  Uri Geller

  Book, Writing, Government

  www.urigeller.com.

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• The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

  Alexis Carrel

  Reality, Fog, Long

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• His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

  Mary Antin

  Struggle, Writing, School

  Mary Antin (1912). “At School in the Promised Land: Or The Story of a Little Immigrant”

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• Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Liars, Lying, Fighting

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• I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

  Joe Flanigan

  Believe, Home, Thinking

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• I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

  Stanislav Grof

  School, Sitting, Medical

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• Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

  John Pople

  Jobs, Home, Progress

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• All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Real, Progress, Movement

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• As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Pay, Information, Return

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• He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Men, Profound

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

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• Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

  Camille Paglia

  Wise, Men, White Man

  "Obama’s Hit — and Big Miss". Salon Column, www.salon.com. June 10, 2009.

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• Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Groups, Gone

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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