Professors Quotes - Page 18

• As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mba, Apples, Focus

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• Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Teacher

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• We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Dog, Cat, Mind

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• It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Would Be, Grew

  "This much I know: Daniel Kahneman". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

  Jewel

  Doors, Classic, Hours

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• Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

  William James

  Believe, Science, Two

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

  Gary Hamel

  Book, Thinking, Office

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• I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

  Michael Franti

  Basketball, School, College

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

  Shia LaBeouf

  School, Yale, Normal

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• We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

  Stephen Leacock

  Thinking, Laughing, Forgiving

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “My Discovery of England”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• My students often say, "My roommate read this story and really liked it", and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, "well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something."

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Love You, Teaching, People

  "The grandmother of invention". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

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• Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Students, Princeton, Integrated

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• And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Lawyer, Young, Stanford

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• I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Moon, Unification Church, Academic

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• A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dog, Fleas, Theory

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

  Steve Martin

  Real, Heart, College

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• Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Sense Of Humor, Denzel, Nutty

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• I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Good Friend, Views, California

  "The Way Things Ought to Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, p. 193, 1992.

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• My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor, my mom, she has such great faith.

  Allyson Felix

  Mom, Dad, Pastor

  "Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2012.

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• I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Weekend, Thinking

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• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

  Coco Chanel

  Strong Women, Opinion, Wonderful

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• But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

  Donald Cargill

  Stupid, Thinking, Champion

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• I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

  Tony Campolo

  University Professors, Ministers, University

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• Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?

  Kirk Cameron

  Believe, Writing, Genius

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