“There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.” SometimesStudentsPoetReaderGreat PoetDistressing Author:Edward Hirsch
“I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."” IfsWayWritingWellsSaidForceProcessAnswersNovelStudentsMinesPeriodsNovelistsJaneBookstoresQuestions And AnswersSmiley Author:Edward Hirsch
“My very first venture was a national student magazine to try to campaign against the [Vietnam] War. And so I wanted to be an editor. I wanted to bring the magazine out. And in order for the magazine to survive I had to worry about the printing and the paper manufacturing and the distribution. And, you know, I had to try to, at the end of the year, have more money coming in than going out.” KnowsTryingYearsFirstsWarEndsWantedOrderWorryStudentsPaperCampaignsMagazinesEditorsVietnamMore MoneyGoing OutVentureDistributionVietnam WarManufacturingPrinting Author:Richard Branson
“I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.” MysteryStudentsGunDoctorsExpertsEtcFacultyConferencesPolicemenDetectivesForensics Author:Isabel Allende
“LeBron james came, and he gets $10 million a year. There was no stigma or blemish, like you have with one-and-done. Now people say, "He's not a student, he's an athlete." Well, of course he's not a student! He's here for one year and he told you he's here for one year, and the school took him with open arms.” PeopleYearsWellsDoneSchoolCoursesMillionsStudentsLike YouArmsAthleteStigmaOpen Arms Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“Today I said to the calculus students, "I know, you're looking at this series and you don't see what I'm warning you about. You look and it and you think, 'I trust this series. I would take candy from this series. I would get in a car with this series.' But I'm going to warn you, this series is out to get you. Always remember: The harmonic series diverges. Never forget it."” ThinkingKnowsLooksSaidTodayRememberForgetEducationCarStudentsMathematicsSeriesMathNever ForgetWarningCandyForget ItCalculusGoing To War Author:Alexandre Borovik
“The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.” WorldStudentsExpertsArdent Author:Brendon Burchard
“Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.” IfsFeelsWritingHumansBodyTurnsLanguagePresidentAbilityStudentsMoonPagesMake SenseQueensPhrasesOutsidersHuman ExperienceFacilityHowlHomecomingHomecoming Queen Author:Karen Karbo
“Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.” KnowsFirstsHeartDoneStudyStudentsThousandTenDoctorsMalesMedicalAgendasNancyHeart AttackProtocolAspirinWomen's Health Author:Barbara Mikulski
“What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.” StudentsCommunismCuba Author:Rafael Cruz
“How could someone with a renowned ability to inspire, communicate complex ideas, and connect with voters find himself in this position? The President [Barack Obama], though a dedicated student of history, has seemingly failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations: They've required single-minded determination, and the willingness to battle until the fight was won.” IdeasPoliticalFightingNationsPresidentAbilityPositionStudentsInspireLessonsBattleDeterminationComplexesCommunicateSignificantBarackWillingnessVotersDedicatedConfrontationPresident Barack ObamaRenowned Author:Arianna Huffington
“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.” BlackWhiteStudentsMarriedGraduatesBlack And WhiteGraduate Students Author:Susan Sarandon
“One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me for help. I stood outside on the street in Lahore and asked the people in that city for help. Within four or five hours, I received more than 40 million rupees [more than US $670,000].” PeopleHelpingHoursCitiesMillionsFiveFourStreetsStudentsUniversityCancerOne TimePunjabLahoreRupees Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time.” ThinkingTryingKindIdeasHelpingJobsFallResultsClassTeacherTeachingStudentsI RealizedMy TimeSpokes Author:Robert Barry
“Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz it's a car chase movie. All our songs were based on movies, every single song. I love movies, and that was something that me and the singer in Two Lane Blacktop bonded over - we were design students together, we did a film-class together, so we became obsessed with movies. It's followed me around ever since then, it's a constant theme.” YearsTwoTogetherFilmSongClassCarDesignStudentsBandYears AgoConstantSingersObsessedThemeLanesCuzMovie Love Author:Ladyhawke
“I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.” WayYoungStudentsTaughtPhysicsUrgesEcologyNature LoveYoung Students Author:Vandana Shiva
“Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.” StudentsApproachCuriosityMentality Author:Mahershala Ali
“I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.” PeopleWantStudentsPleaseFeedback Author:Mindy Kaling
“I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.” IdeasPlayStudentsMusicianAimVery GoodSakeGet Better Author:Jeff Goldblum
“Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.” ProcessCan DoStudentsExperimentsRestaurants Author:Eric Schlosser
“Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.” PeopleKnowsBookMy OwnSeeingSubjectsStudentsFindingsHappeningsLibraryCuriousInterviewsPerpetualGoing Out Author:Eric Schlosser
“I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.” SchoolInterestingStudentsVisiting Author:Eric Schlosser
“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.” TryingWellsUseFilmClassTeachNovelStudentsSourcePhotographyNotionArchitectureGraduatesTopicsGraphicGraphic NovelsTerminologySeminars Author:Matthea Harvey
“I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.” PassionStudentsCooking Author:Eric Ripert
“There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens when people have to spend more and more of their income to carry the debts that they've run up - to pay their mortgage debt, to pay the credit card debt, to pay student loans.” PeopleThinkingTwoHappensRunningPayStudentsDefinitionsCreditDebtIncomeCardsLoanMortgageCredit CardStudent LoanDeflationCredit Card Debt Author:Michael Hudson
“I disagree with the analysis that you've put about what happened in relation to the student demonstrations and protests and the incident with the Prince of Wales' car. We're very clear that we have to separate out the political responsibility from operational responsibility of the police.” PoliticalResponsibilityClearHappenedCarStudentsRelationPoliceAnalysisProtestDisagreeIncidentsDemonstrationWalesPolitical Responsibility Author:Theresa May
“The fact that you have government-guaranteed student loans has created a whole new sector in the American economy that didn't really exist before - private for-profit universities that sell junk degrees that don't help the students. They promise the students, "We'll help you get a better job. We'll arrange a loan so that you don't have to pay a penny for this education." Their pet bank gets them the government-guaranteed loan, and the student may get the junk degree, but doesn't get a job, so they don't pay the loan.” MayWholeFactsHelpingGovernmentJobsPayEconomyStudentsPromiseDegreesSellsUniversityProfitPetLoanPenniesJunkBetter JobsStudent LoanAmerican Economy Author:Michael Hudson
“Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.” IfsEffectsStudentsDebtGraduatesLoanWipeFresh StartStudent Loan Author:Michael Hudson
“Just like a house is worth whatever a bank's going to lend against it, an education is worth whatever the bank is going to lend the student to pay the university. So the availability of government-guaranteed student loans has vastly inflated the cost of education, just like it's inflated the cost of housing.” GovernmentHousePayStudentsCostUniversityHousingLoanAvailabilityStudent LoanCost Of Education Author:Michael Hudson
“In housing you have jingle mail and you can walk away and leave the bank holding the bag. In the case of student loans, the debt follows you through life, and the banks or government will turn it over to collection agencies that are not very nice people and can do all sorts of harassing things to you. It's becoming a nightmare.” PeopleGovernmentTurnsCan DoWalksCasesNiceStudentsBecomingDebtAgencyCollectionsBagsNightmareMailHousingLoanVery NiceNice PeopleStudent LoanJingles Author:Michael Hudson
“Education is something that should not be organized on a for-profit basis, because in that case its purpose is not really to provide an education. It's not to teach students how to get better work, but how to provide banks with a free giveaway opportunity from the government, by making junk loans that are defaulted on. The effect may be to wreck the futures of the graduates that fall for the false promises that are being made.” ShouldMayMadeGovernmentPurposeFallOpportunityTeachCasesEffectsStudentsPromiseBasesProfitGet BetterOrganizedGraduatesLoanJunkWrecksFalse Promises Author:Michael Hudson
“It also helps that what Dan Slott is doing with Peter Parker in the comics has elevated him to something else, so that Miles Morales at the moment is the more traditional Spider-Man figure in the universe: the high school student trying to balance high school and superheroics, and he can't catch a break. That was Peter's role, but it's not his role anymore, and it's Miles' role. That was given to me, and it's pretty cool.” MenTryingMomentsHelpingSchoolUniverseGivenRolesBreakFiguresStudentsBalanceHigh SchoolMilesTraditionalPeterSpidersMoraleSpider ManHigh School StudentsPeter Parker Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?” PeopleShouldPhilosophyEvilSpeakMemoriesStudentsGood ThingsInvokeEvil Things Author:Elie Wiesel
“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.” IfsMeanYouthStudentsUniversityJunkListen To Me Author:Elie Wiesel
“Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.” PeopleWantFirstsStatesFiguresStudentsPoetPraiseShockGraduatesPublic FiguresGraduate Students Author:Erica Jong
“One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.” IfsWantUseShowsProblemBodyStudyPsychologyGroupsEffectsStudentsHealthyMeaningfulViolentReleaseImageryPsychopathUsing MeCopycats Author:Park Dietz
“I have somewhat lost my enthusiasm in the last years. Mainly because film students using digital video these days have not really produced anything which is more than superficial or simplistic; so I have my doubts.” YearsLastsFilmLostDoubtStudentsVideoEnthusiasmThese DaysDigitalLast YearSuperficialFilm Students Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.” FilmTeachStudentsProjectsProgramGraduatesUclaCameosUsc Author:James Franco
“I get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film.” LittlesStillsFilmYoungSidesAttitudeStudentsInspirePureFilmmakerReprieve Author:James Franco
“Consciousness-Based Education is education that is in most ways exactly like regular education, but with the added technique of Transcendental Meditation. Transcendental Meditation, or TM as it's often referred to, allows students to dive in and experience the unbounded ocean of consciousness within each of us, the big treasury, the field within each of us that is the base of all matter and all mind. It's been found that transcending and experiencing that unbounded, eternal level of life does wonders for education, and for human beings.” WayMindHumansDoeMatterBigsFoundHuman BeingsLevelsConsciousnessWonderMeditationFieldsStudentsOceanEternalTechniqueTreasuryTranscendentalTranscendingTranscendental MeditationLevels Of Life Author:David Lynch
“Tied to consciousness are all positive qualities, so that ocean within is an ocean of unbounded intelligence, unbounded creativity, unbounded happiness, unbounded love, unbounded energy, and unbounded peace. And when students start expanding consciousness in those positive qualities, their relationships improve, their grades go up, their happiness goes up, the fighting and bullying stops, and things get very, very, very good.” FightingEnergyConsciousnessQualityCreativityStudentsOceanVery GoodGradesBullyingTiedExpanding Author:David Lynch
“The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light. Many students have so much torment, stress, depression, sorrow and hate in them these days, but then they get this technique and the negativity starts to go away. They start to feel good because the torment is leaving. Their health gets better and they get happier, their comprehension and their ability to focus grow, their grades go up and a joy for life grows; all of which comes from within.” FeelsLightJoyHateTurnsGrowsSidesAbilityConsciousnessDarknessFocusEffectsStudentsSorrowStressLeavingTechniqueFeel GoodThese DaysGet BetterGradesGoing AwayNegativityTormentExpandingTurn-onComprehensionSide Effects Author:David Lynch
“I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.” BodyAgeSchoolTeacherStudents Author:Paul Smith
“I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on.” ArtSchoolBitsInterestKnownTeacherGrowingStudentsCreditRecognitionEvolvePetFaculty Author:Paul Smith
“I take my fearless approach into my teaching by helping my students to realize their potential through yoga. I have a gift for making difficult poses accessible and reminding people that postures, and anything in life, are only as hard as you make them out to be.” PeopleHardHelpingDifficultRealizingTeachingStudentsApproachYogaFearlessPostureRemindingAnything In Life Author:Kathryn Budig
“I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.” ThinkingDoeArtSaidPlayStoriesFilmLevelsEmotionStudentsMusic IsBeatsMoodDynamicsMovie LoveLove FilmsMoodiness Author:Q-Tip
“In this day and age, social media is a huge part of a business, which I actually love. It's a phenomenal platform to share your message, keep others and myself inspired and help keep your students connected to your events. The hardest part is the anonymous ability to say whatever you want.” WantHelpingAgeSocialAbilityShareMediaEventsStudentsHugeMessagesInspiredSocial MediaConnectedHardestThis DayPlatformsPhenomenal Author:Kathryn Budig
“I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!” IfsYearsPersonsStudentsMonths Author:Susan Nagel
“I've said that we're going to produce real results for the American people because so many Americans feel left out and left behind, they think the economy has failed them, they think our government has failed, they can't stand the gridlock and dysfunction in our politics, and I'm determined to produce more good jobs with rising incomes, and deal with all of the concerns that families have about education, college affordability, student debt.” PeopleThinkingFeelsSaidRealGovernmentJobsLeftResultsDealsBehindsEconomyStudentsProduceCollegeConcernDebtDeterminedIncomeRisingGood JobLeft BehindLeft OutDysfunctionGridlockAffordability Author:Hillary Clinton