Lectures Quotes - Page 14

• The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

  Denis Waitley

  Mind, Important, Privacy

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• The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

  Tennessee Williams

  Patience, Lonely, Hurt

  Tennessee Williams (2010). “Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Caring, Thinking

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love and Compassion”, p.4, Sounds True

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• The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

  Herbert Croly

  Education, School, Library

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• One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

  Denis Waitley

  Communication, Language, Speak

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• Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Clever, Work

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• Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

  Eric Mazur

  Learning, Knowledge, Students

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• A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.

  Gideon Haigh

  Wise, Thinking, Stories

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• What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, School, College

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• The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship.

  William Howard Taft

  Philosophy, Character, Fundamentals

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• Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off to become a poet. Hilbert is reported to have remarked: 'I never thought he had enough imagination to be a mathematician.'

  George Polya

  Creativity, Men, Imagination

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• We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Fire, Clouds

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.7

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• Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

  Jacob Gates

  Simple, Choices, Stories

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• Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

  Zig Ziglar

  Kids, Example, Crystals

  Zig Ziglar (1989). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, Ballantine Books

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• If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: ‘Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go?

  Jim Rohn

  Country, Why Not, Answers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 17, 2013

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• In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Discovery, Philadelphia, Atheism

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• Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Elephants, Way, Excuse

  "Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences". Robert M. Sapolsky's lecture at Washington State University, October 10, 2001.

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• Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.

  David Bronstein

  Thinking, Play, Two

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• Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Giving, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

  Francine Pascal

  Art, Bored, Want

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• Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Practice, Effort

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• As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Heart, Giving, My Family

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• Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Philosophy, Fall, Eye

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• Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Giving, Stranger, Intention

  "Mind Your Own Kids". www.salon.com. August 15, 2005.

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