Professors Quotes - Page 14

• Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Russian History

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• The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Firsts, Bordeaux, Late

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• Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

  Marc Benioff

  Jobs, Real, Heart

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• Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.

  Michael Arrington

  Mean, College, People

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• As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Library

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

  August Bier

  Medicine, Would Be, Easier

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• All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Brother, Pain, Real

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• I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in my bed. I can not see anything wrong in that. Because everything is a question of exchanges between people. Everyone has some specific possibilities and can to a certain extent do whatever they want. If one wants to become rich one can study economy and if one wants to be poor one can choose to become a professor in butterfly wings for example. So we can choose.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Believe, Butterfly, Mean

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

  Meg Cabot

  Teacher, Dad, Regret

  Interview with Joyce Lamb, www.azcentral.com. June 30, 2013.

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• Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Men, Air

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.2, eBookIt.com

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• My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Science, Montana, Occupation

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• I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

  Endre Szemeredi

  Science, Email, Use

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• Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

  Robert B. Parker

  Education, Years, Pieces

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• Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Time, Work, Appreciate

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• (Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

  Stefan Zweig

  Notebook, Education, Learning

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• I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

  William Sloane Coffin

  Years, Cry, Said

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• I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

  John Green

  Voice, Skins, Made

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

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• Why? I mean, why you? I can perfectly comprehend not liking my husband. I dislike him intensely most of the time.” Professor Lyall stifled a chuckle. “I am given to understand that he does not approve of spelling one’ s name with two ll’s. He finds it inexcusably Welsh. I suspect he may be quite taken with you, however.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Taken, Mean

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• Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Children, Crazy, Despair

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• The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

  Randy Pausch

  Jobs, College, Mirrors

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Intelligent, People, Causes

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• Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls.

  Eoin Colfer

  Thinking, Skulls, Tvs

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. “The moment they start trying to move into each other’s pots, we’ll know they’re fully mature,” she told Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Moving, Party, Trying

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• Professor Trelawney: "Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!" Harry Potter: "And you didn’t see that coming?" Professor Trelawney: "No, as I say it was pitch — ” [Glares at Harry angrily]

  J. K. Rowling

  Black, Rooms, Next

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• And it’s Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I’ve been saying it for years but she still won’t go out with me —” “JORDAN!” yelled Professor McGonagall. “Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest —

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Fun, Player

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