Best 871 quotes in «students quotes» category

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.

If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy.

I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to what's he doing you see.

I found great value in teaching students from the outset of their studies how to draw very realistically. Otherwise, you're starting deep into the alphabet instead of having started at the start. If you discard essential things like drawing, design, color and so on at the beginning, then you're just sort of floating out in space, without any basis to work from.

I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

If you're one of the millions of people who have student debt right now, I'll help you refinance your loans at better rates.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize that they don't really want to watch real life. They don't want to sit and watch a security camera. There's a strong gravity in all of us as viewers - even in myself now and then - to want to see real life depicted. But you're looking for it in the wrong places. It's in little allegories, in something removed.

I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any way. It was more of a habitual tendency. I would work on weekends at piano bars playing jazz when I was an art student, but the music wasn't mine - it was covers: everything from Radiohead to really old jazz. But other than that, the only training I had was piano lessons from when I was nine until I was eleven.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find a job, and I took the first job that came along. It happened to be a management trainee job in a life insurance company, and I just stayed. It was always, mainly, the idea was that I would support myself as a writer, and I knew I would have to have some sort of work, and it didn't make a whole lot of difference to me what it was. I mean, I could have been a paper hanger or something for that matter.

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

I like to tell the students the radio business's like surfing. You get knocked off your board by a wave, you get back up, stabilize, regain your balance and keep going. One thing I can guarantee them is that everything will change. You have to be ready for it. But that's life. Life constantly changes.

I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them.

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.