Professors Quotes - Page 33

• I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Photography, Writing, Lions

  "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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• There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

  Bennett Cerf

  Teaching, College, Today

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• ...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

  Frank Knight

  Mind, Economics

  Frank H. Knight (2012). “Risk, Uncertainty and Profit”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.

  Wilbert J. McKeachie

  Teaching, Simple, Essence

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• Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

  Joycelyn Elders

  Teaching, Doctors, White

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• I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high mark in their profession. Well, of course, I know you cannot invest in securities successfully with odds like that against you if you place dependence solely upon judgement as to the right securities to own and the right time or price to buy them. Then, too, I read somewhere about the man who described an economist as resembling ‘a professor of anatomy who was still a virgin.’

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Men, Odds, He Man

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• "Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

  Calvin Trillin

  Law, Fool, Economics

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• Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.

  David Hilbert

  Sex, Firsts, Discrimination

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• Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

  Morris Kline

  Math, Men, Wife

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• He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

  Linda McCartney

  Writing, Mad, Tunes

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• Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

  Malcolm X

  University

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Kings, Jobs

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike began as a response to the college's refusal to hire Professor Nathan Hare [the so-called father of black studies], and certainly unified the college around issues of justice. These issues were reflected in many communities: the Asian American community, Hispanic community, Native American community.

  Danny Glover

  Father, Native American, College

  Source: progressive.org

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• Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of the leading British universities. I asked him,what was the official language of the Byzantine Empire? He said, maybe sometime in the sixth or the seventh century.The Justinian Codex, the rule of law in the Byzantine Empire which was produced by Emperor Justinian, it was written in Latin.And he looked at me ,he knew that I knew already that the only original copy was found in the beginning of the sixteenth century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Latin, Law, Groups

  Source: www.timothytaylor.ca

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• I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor

  Tom Berenger

  Actors, Ifs

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• A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Editing, Ideas

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• Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.

  Julia Stiles

  Jobs, Stars, College

  People Magazine, April 6, 2004.

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• How many of you have had a crush on a teacher? I mean, remember that Physics professor? Law One is so steamy, I'm getting worked up just thinking about it: Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. Mee-yow.

  Olivia Munn

  Crush, Teacher, Mean

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• One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

  Louis Menand

  Care, Good Things, Interest

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

  Pete Seeger

  Dad, Argument, Used

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• Palestinians are a hard-working and an incredible community. They have done remarkably well outside their country. I have never met a poor Palestinian in the United States; every Palestinian I know is a college professor or a doctor.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Hard Work, College

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• Now then, what do we know? One, that Professor Fassbinder and his daughter have been kidnapped. Two, that someone has kidnapped them. Three, that my hand is on fire.

  Peter Sellers

  Daughter, Hands, Two

  "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Clouseau". "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", www.imdb.com. 1976.

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• I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

  Connie Francis

  Song, Grandmother, Italian

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• I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vaccuum cleaners.

  Jeff Stilson

  Funny, Animal, Men

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• I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Simple, Men, Class

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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