Best 871 quotes in «students quotes» category

I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.

I'd require that every university, public or private, be governed by the constitutional standards regarding freedom of expression and due process. There is no reason for treating adult college students any differently in the university setting than in the outside world.

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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

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

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 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 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.

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 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 student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.