Lectures quotes
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"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."
"Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice."
"College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either."
"I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers."
"You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail."
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"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."
"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."
"A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other."
"The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry."
"My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside."
"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."
"When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture."
"The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave."
"To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc."
"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."
"Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner."
"Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion."
"Wounds make better lessons than lectures."
"The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners."
"I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are."
"A watch is the most essential part of a lecture."
