Lecturing Quotes

• Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.

  James Altucher

  Teaching, Thinking

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• We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

  Daphne Koller

  Motivation, Inspiration, Creativity

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• Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.

  Harry Lloyd

  Book, Mean, Mind

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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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• You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Teaching, Men, Shoes

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• How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

  William Morris Hunt

  Doubters, Painting, Conviction

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• I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people.

  Robert Greene

  People, Giving, World

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• When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

  Erma Bombeck

  Teenager, Rooms, Adolescence

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• One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

  Gertrude Stein

  Loss, Said, Heard

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.310, Univ of California Press

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• Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Weekend, Thinking

  "Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California". Interviewed with Reginald Martin, aalbc.com. July 1, 1983.

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• In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea--by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Coffee, Mean, Vegetables

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “House and Home Papers”, p.230, Applewood Books

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• Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Science, People

  'Man's Place in Nature' (1894 ed.) preface

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• Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

  William Osler

  Book, Practice Of Medicine, Disease

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• Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

  Antony Hewish

  Teaching, Physics, Concern

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• I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Skins, Smooth Skin

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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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• I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.

  Conrad Aiken

  College, Thinking, Rushing

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• I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, School, Arms

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• Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.... If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Teaching, Weekend

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• Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

  Daphne Koller

  Teaching, School, College

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• I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

  Charles Lamb

  Tombstone, Moving, Men

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.736, Delphi Classics

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• And so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially in the life of the mind; forever reading veraciously, writing, speaking, lecturing, trying to unsettle minds, trying to touch souls, trying to encourage and inspire, on the one hand, but also trying to unhouse and unnerve people, so that they have to reexamine themselves, society and the world on the others. There's tremendous joy in it.

  Cornel West

  Reading, Moving, Writing

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.

  Colin Wilson

  Ideas, Philadelphia, America

  Interview with Paul Newman, Abraxas Unbound #7,

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• Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting, not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child.

  Jay Leno

  Children, Husband, Talking

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