Lectures Quotes

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

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.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

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

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

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

Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

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

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research.

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.

All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

My parents never really lecture me.

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.