Top 100 A Student Quotes
#1. The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.
Frank N. Newman
#2. Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.
John Grisham
#3. The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
Naveen Jain
#4. I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.
Roscoe Mitchell
#5. I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
John Philip Sousa
#6. Readiness is a student's entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
#7. I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.
Jack Kirby
#8. Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is going to throw a parade in their honour for being so smart.
Nick Offerman
#9. We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A ... student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education ...
Victor Papanek
#10. A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
William Stafford
#11. A student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison spent 90 days technology free. He went without a cell phone, Facebook, Twitter, or any social media of any kind. And you know what really improved? His driving!
Jay Leno
#12. I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.
Holland Roden
#13. The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.
Edwin Meese
#14. I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
Criss Angel
#15. If [a student's] college's endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won't have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.
Bill McKibben
#16. In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
Ma Jian
#17. And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.
David Steinberg
#18. I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.
Will Smith
#19. The greatest joy of being a teacher, Mr.Karasuma is when a student provides a clear answer to a question you had your doubts about.
Yusei Matsui
#20. My most embarrassing moment was when I was a student at Tufts University and decided to go 'streaking' with a group of girls in the middle of January. Somehow I lost them and ended up being chased by the campus police.
Meredith Vieira
#21. Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.
Joseph Carroll
#22. I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.
Olivia Wilde
#23. I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.
Bruno Mars
#24. Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions.
Garry Kasparov
#25. Gemma had blond hair and blue eyes. I did not.
Gemma was always an A student. I was more of a B-all-you-can-be kind of gal.
When Gemma was into science, I was into skipping.
When Gemma was into foreign languages, I was into the hot Italian guy down the street.
Darynda Jones
#26. A student is almost always feeling motivated to practice, if he leaves his lesson feeling capable
Frances Elliott Clark
#27. Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.
Elisabeth Shue
#28. A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
Herbie Hancock
#29. The failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach.
Kristin Hannah
#30. She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game.
"Like chess?" she asks once.
"No," her father says. "Not like chess.
Erin Morgenstern
#31. I felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was going to save me, and so I moved myself across the country for grad school and yet still didn't have a home. It was upsetting. And I know that's a common feeling.
John D'Agata
#32. [When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]
Oh, no. Absolutely not ... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
James D. Watson
#33. When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.
Charles Finch
#34. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. If students don't think that you care and can relate, especially as they get older, they tune you out. I didn't get it in my classes at the graduate school of education. I got it intuitively from my own experiences as a student.
Pedro Noguera
#36. My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
Yaya DaCosta
#37. I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village.
Conrad Ricamora
#38. When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.
Simon Hoggart
#39. Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.
Douglas Conant
#40. Education should enable a student to think rationally, critically, and ultimately to understand, accept, and adapt with new and old ideas.
Debasish Mridha
#41. The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.
David Brooks
#42. Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).
Mary J. Miller
#43. I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#44. 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?
Elie Wiesel
#45. You have to be a student of the game to be successful, and it's promising when you can say that, with a world-record performance, I still have things to improve on!
Brittany Bowe
#46. I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#48. I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.
John Darnielle
#49. Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
Ronald Reagan
#50. Von Neumann, by contrast, wore a three-piece suit at almost all times, including on a donkey ride down the Grand Canyon; even as a student he was so well dressed that, upon first meeting him, the mathematician David Hilbert reportedly had but one question: Who is his tailor?45
Walter Isaacson
#51. And the art was in every corner and wall ... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember ...
Santiago Martinez Delgado
#52. Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge," said Stephanopoulos. "He was a student at St. Martins College.
Ben Aaronovitch
#53. I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.
Jerry Falwell
#54. A student Christian fellowship whose members roamed the corriders ... looking for likely converts (the afraid, the alone, the abandoned) and those who needed to use the bible to fill in the spaces where their personalitites should have been.
Kate Atkinson
#55. A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future
Drew Gilpin Faust
#56. BE A STUDENT BY STAYING OPEN AND WILLING TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE AND ANYONE.
Wayne Dyer
#57. Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#58. You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#59. A student with greater talent than his teacher needs great humility.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Instead of being a student of a (given) field, I would like you to be the field.
Jacob Barnett
#61. Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
B.F. Skinner
#62. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books which he has merely skimmed, lapping at them, as the classic proverb puts it; "As the dogs drink of Nilus." Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#63. it seems to me that one of the truths about history that needs to be made clear to a student or to a reader is that nothing ever had to happen the way it happened.
David McCullough
#64. If a student works rigorously, no topic is truly foolish, and the student can draw useful conclusions even from a remote or peripheral topic.
Umberto Eco
#65. In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
Natalie Goldberg
#67. I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.
Mitch Kapor
#68. When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.
Jane Green
#69. It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.
Jack London
#70. I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
Art Garfunkel
#71. It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#72. A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.
James Fenton
#73. If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.
Andrew Shue
#74. As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
Bill Moyers
#75. Before you can become a master of anything, you must first learn that you'll always be a student.
Myself
#76. Money and success make you arrogant and stupid. Now with some poverty and humility behind you, you can become a student again.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#77. I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'
Jeffrey Toobin
#78. I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.
Marianne Williamson
#79. When a student at Pomona told me that she'd love to have a chance to think about the things she's studying, only she doesn't have the time, I asked her if she had ever considered not trying to get an A in every class. She looked at me as if I had made an indecent suggestion.
William Deresiewicz
#80. The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.
Nicholas Royle
#81. Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
Howard Nemerov
#82. I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins, buying stacks and stacks of CDs, and discovering rarely played pieces by composers.
Anne Akiko Meyers
#83. I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.
Wade Guyton
#84. In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.
Christian De Portzamparc
#85. Schools have taken a robotic, assembly-line approach toward education. In doing so, they have stripped teachers' ability to tap into the essence of a student, and the ability to find out what interests them other than math and science.
Courtney R. Logan
#86. Sullivan hung at my shoulder. "Is she a student?"
"No." I brushed her hair out of her face. "Fix her."
He laughed, a little helplessly. "You have such faith in me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. QUIRK THEORY: Many of the differences that cause a student to be excluded in school are the same traits or real-world skills that others will value, love, respect, or find compelling about that person in adulthood and outside of the school setting.
Alexandra Robbins
#88. When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.
Simon Pegg
#89. A teacher must be greater than his students; a student must aspire to be greater than his teacher.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#90. 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.
Richard Rodriguez
#91. A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar ... , the answer is, as long as you live - that short.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#92. I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
Colin Farrell
#93. I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.
Zach Condon
#94. It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.
Julia Stiles
#95. I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.
Pierre Boulez
#96. When a student surpasses my expectations, I feel proud and betrayed.
Sarah Manguso
#97. I was, am and always will be a student ... , the day I stop learning, is the day I die.
Terence Lewis
#98. Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.
David Rockefeller
#99. A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
Alan W. Watts
#100. The moment when I can see a student's block, name the challenge and watch them become fuller and more dynamic in front of their colleagues' eyes is as rich a moment in a boardroom as it is in a ring.
Jeff Raz
