Lectures Quotes - Page 3

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

It's useless to lecture a human.

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.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

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 first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to travel from America back to England with him on the same boat. It was a very slow boat. I think it took us about seven days to cross the Atlantic.

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.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.