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I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

I report when science clashes with the Bible story and when it reinforces it. Then I let the readers chew on it. As followers of Jesus and students of the Bible, what we're looking for is the truth. We find it by grappling with the facts. And when the truth remains a mystery that our facts can't solve, we live with it. We hold loosely to our waffling knowledge and tightly to Jesus.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

I shot a lot of stuff that no one will ever see. That was my student work. What also happened was there was a big jump in technology.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

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

I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no Jewish faculty there.

I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can see why - we don't have the vocabulary for it. Phrasing is intuitive, and its difficult to articulate when it's on and when it's not.

I taught high school students Spanish.

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?

I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves to be artists, because - it seems so quaint, but when I picked up a camera with a group of other women, I'm not gonna say it was a radical act, but we were certainly doing it in some sort of defiance of, or reaction to, a male-dominated world of painting.

I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A lot of authors of color, a lot of women of color - those become central to the intellectual trajectory. It considers music, but it also considers areas of thought that might seem unrelated to music. That's partly because we're expanding the notion of what music is beyond objects, beyond scores, beyond things.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

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.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

I think the problem with Western students is they're very ambitious.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra.

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard for the student and help is needed.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.

It's hard to swallow when people say, "Oh my God, you're a master of something." I say, "No, I'm actually a student of that. I could turn you on to websites for 25 masters, and you'll quickly see that I am their disciple.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story. You would pick up the magazines and you would be taught from the magazines how to write a short story. Nowadays student writers are learning to write novels because that market is gone, so the ones who are drawn to the form are doing it really for reasons of their own and that's really exciting.