Students Quotes - Page 5

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.

A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.

Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.