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Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.
Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.
Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.
Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
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.
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.
In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.
The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone.
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.
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.
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.
I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards.
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.
We've all had classes with a professor so bland and monotone that their lectures sound like Mitt Romney reading 'Paradise Lost' from a blown speaker.
Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.
[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.
I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.
I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them.
The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.
Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.
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.
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books or listen to my lectures will realise this.
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.
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.
When I turned 17, I created a website for the students at my University. It enabled students to share lectures and discuss exams, and became popular very quickly.
It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
I've always done live art history lectures and small documentaries in the past in Australia, on Australian art and art galleries, so I've already done a lot of that.
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.
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.