Lecturer Quotes

• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

  Kanye West

  Art, Oxford, Goal

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Insomnia, People

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Lying, Miracle, Comfort

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 28, 2013

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• The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Wise, Contribution To Society

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 20, 2013

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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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• A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Believe

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 30, 2013

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• There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Faith, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 01, 2011

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• if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !

  Dale Carnegie

  Happy, Want, True Happiness

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

  Marianne Williamson

  Optimistic, Adversity, Dark

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 22, 2010

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• The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

  Virginia Woolf

  Notebook, Teacher, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

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• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”.- Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer
  “Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  New Year, Lying, Years

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  Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Clever, Live Life

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

  Dan Millman

  Future, Feet, Use

  Dan Millman (2004). “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, p.70, H J Kramer

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• May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.203, New World Library

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• To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.

  John Gray

  Love, Relationship, Appreciation

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• We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Continuous Improvement, Being A Better Person

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 25, 2013

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• Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

  Richard Wagner

  Passion, Musician, Directors

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• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

  Dale Carnegie

  Relationship, Communication, Heart

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• Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.

  Marianne Williamson

  Helping Others, Excuse, Cynicism

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 10, 2013

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• You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Heart, Law

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.164, Createspace Independent Pub

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• I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask, "Is this the right thing for me to do now? If it isn't, guide me to what I need."

  Echo Bodine

  Book, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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