Students Quotes - Page 12

• Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

  Old Tom Morris

  Leadership, Plato, Influence

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• The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

  Robert McKee

  Struggle, Talking, Balance

  "The Real McKee" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2003.

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• The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

  Lord David Cecil

  Appreciation, Effort, Literature

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• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  Wendy Cope

  Writing, Two, Upset

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• Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.

  Terry Eagleton

  Odds, Syntax, Literature

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Years, Ducks

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
  A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
  A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
  A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

  William Watson Purkey

  Education, Jobs, School

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• A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.

  James Fenton

  Italian, Happy Times, Interesting

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• I learned that when something just has to be said to move the discussion along, or broaden it or deepen it, if I can just keep my mouth shut for five minutes a student will say it. So for me a lot of teaching is about keeping my mouth shut.

  Greil Marcus

  Moving, Teaching, Mouths

  "Greil Marcus examines culture through prism of pop" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. October 30, 2011.

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Media, Brain

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• I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Actors, Film, Filmmaking

  "Mulroney and Amazing". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2002.

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• I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

  Prince William

  Fun, Ordinary, Want

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• When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

  Chandra Wilson

  School, Winning, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Jobs, Hair, Best Job

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• My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

  Eliza Dushku

  Mother, Country, Russia

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• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Art, Hard Work, Math

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

  Alexis Bledel

  Writing, School, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.

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• If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

  Annie Baker

  College, Thinking, Opposites

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• I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.

  Anthony Braxton

  Narrative Structure, Guy, Intellectual

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• I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

  Anthony Braxton

  Discipline, World, Possibility

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• I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Teacher, School, Insulting

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

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• I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Senior, Team, Government

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• Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

  Spencer Bachus

  Fall, College, Gambling

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• My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Drama, Holiday, Athens

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• I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.

  Adelaide Clemens

  Girl, Memories, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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