Students Quotes - Page 7

• I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

  Geneen Roth

  Two, Healthy, Needs

  Geneen Roth (2010). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• BOLD Immersion was about exposing students to a talented and diverse community, learning about the technology industry from a non-technical point of view, and growing my skills.

  Moses

  Technology, Views, Skills

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• Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

  Stewart Brand

  Growth, Style, Fool

  Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.233, Penguin

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• As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil” is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.

  David James Duncan

  Jesus, Evil, Goal

  "When Compassion Becomes Dissent". orionmagazine.org.

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• I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Risk, Genius, Brilliance

  Robert T. Kiyosaki (2016). “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, p.81, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Law, Laughing

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• I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Struggle, Thinking, Feminist

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity”, p.243, Duke University Press

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• Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

  Amy Sillman

  Teacher, Art, Cheerleader

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• Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

  William Westney

  Teaching, Impulse, Music Practice

  William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.43, Amadeus Press

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• And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Struggle, Kids

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• I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

  John Mellencamp

  Art, New York, League

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• I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Teacher, Kids, Glasses

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• I often tell my students that you can't worry about the end of an improv scene because the end is not up to you. You just play as hard as you can until someone changes the scene. The scene has changedthe end is not up to us.

  Mark Sutton

  Play, Worry, Up To You

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• There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Children, Work Out, Design

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.31, Discovery House

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• For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that one of these days the two categories will be reversed by a student's discovery of those hitherto undisturbed volumes whose contents will unsettle the learned world.

  Helen Vendler

  College, Discovery, Views

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• My most embarrassing moment was when I was a student at Tufts University and decided to go 'streaking' with a group of girls in the middle of January. Somehow I lost them and ended up being chased by the campus police.

  Meredith Vieira

  Girl, Police, Groups

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• I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

  Jack Ma

  Teacher, School, Cities

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• Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Teacher, Real, Struggle

  Kelly Gallagher (2011). “Write Like this: Teaching Real-world Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts”, p.21, Stenhouse Publishers

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• I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Reading, Thinking, Play

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• As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you... Those are the same difficulties you'll have as a professional artist, so the school is the place to notice them and to find a way to make them work.

  Tania Bruguera

  School, Artist, Way

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• The only person who can fix education is the student.

  Oliver DeMille

  Persons

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• Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

  James Lafferty

  Glasses, Historical, Mind

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• We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.

  Victor Papanek

  Block, Teaching, Dark

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• In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.

  John Ashcroft

  War, Moving, Color

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• How index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Eels, Library

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.247

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