Last Lecture Quotes

#1. book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch,

Will Schwalbe

#2. It makes no sense to talk about people's rights without also talking about responsibilities. The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

#3. There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

Randy Pausch

#4. Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential. The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

#5. The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and 'pure geometries' are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.

G.H. Hardy

#6. Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

James H. Boren

#7. I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.

Elise Andrew

#8. One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.

Kate Williams

#9. This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

V.S. Naipaul

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

Robert Hass

#11. It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.

John O'Donohue

#12. Thus old men are honoured with a particular respect, yet all the rest fare as well as they. Both dinner and supper are begun with some lecture of morality that is read to them; but it is so short that it is not tedious nor uneasy to them to hear it.

Thomas More

#13. I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

John McCain

#14. he gave the first modern-day description of the condition in children in a lecture at a London hospital in 1887, noting, "If the patient can be cured at all, it must be by means of diet.

David Perlmutter

#15. When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

Sharon Salzberg

#16. Welcome to my world! I've been through it all, and I often pinch myself to believe my luck. I design jewlery, create cosmetics, perform comedy, act, lecture, write books, travel, have a fabulous daughter, and a phenomenal grandson-and I feel I'm the luckiest woman on the planet.

Joan Rivers

#17. Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

Justine Larbalestier

#18. The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten.

Philip Jones Griffiths

#19. In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for food; sex will never be felt where science leads for the atmosphere of thought will be around every lecture.

Harriot Kezia Hunt

#20. Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Michael Caine

#21. If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.

Shepard Fairey

#22. In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

David Souter

#23. A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

D.H. Lawrence

#24. Every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture
from him, of course.

Gregory Benford

#25. I started a lecture series that was inspired by my reporting on race in America. The 'Black in America' series launched on CNN in 2007 as an opportunity to freshen the national conversation on race.

Soledad O'Brien

#26. Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

Ellen Goodman

#27. Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON.
-Slam Dunk

Takehiko Inoue

#28. He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

Alfred Lansing

#29. I dedicate this lecture to showing what ridiculous conclusions and rare statements such a man as myself can make. I wish, therefore, to destroy any image of authority that has previously been generated.

Richard Feynman

#30. 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.

Sinclair Lewis

#31. Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

Ilona Andrews

#32. A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#33. Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

Robert B. Laughlin

#34. Dad hit lecture mode from word one.

Devon Monk

#35. At the end of human; life losses is equal to life gain life earned is equal to life learned and life pain is equal to life lecture. Everything is just one; You!

O.O Michael

#36. I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

Gregory Peck

#37. Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

Robin Williams

#38. These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis.

Idries Shah

#39. A sex lecture from two senior citizens ... it was worth it to get that kiss from you.

Kathleen Brooks

#40. I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.

Marianne Williamson

#41. Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.

Mark McKinnon

#42. I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.

Kathleen Hanna

#43. Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?

David Limbaugh

#44. I found when I had finished my new lecture that it was a very good house, only the architect had unfortunately omitted the stairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#45. Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

Derek Bok

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

Denis Waitley

#47. The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist. Ironically,

Jerry A. Coyne

#48. Experience is the only teacher," Hey-Soos says. "Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don't listen to their parents, or people don't leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?

Chris Crutcher

#49. J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.

Philip Zaleski

#50. I'm quick enough to criticize and lecture the poor man. Praise should be just as quick to come when the right course is chosen.

Tracie Peterson

#51. You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to people. I hear very few radio commercials that sound like I could have written them or that they got the idea.

Stan Freberg

#52. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

Georgia May Jagger

#53. Sometimes you are garrulous, Taita.' Pharaoh was less than captivated by my lecture on the palace architecture. 'Get on

Wilbur Smith

#54. We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

Thomas Carlyle

#55. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Randy Pausch

#56. He closed his eyes and clenched his jaw until she thought he would break a tooth. No doubt he was giving himself a very intense lecture on inappropriate thoughts during lifesaving moments.

Jacquelyn Frank

#57. It's good to make mistakes whether they are common or obscure, we learn more from our own mistakes while working rather than from any book or lecture.

Tanay Pant

#58. When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

Marilynne Robinson

#59. The professor ignored Lynn's comments and proceeded with his lecture.

Sherman Alexie

#60. 16 marketing vehicles are: 1. Social media marketing 2. Blog marketing 3. Article marketing 4. Lecture marketing 5. Webinar marketing 6. Video marketing 7. Presentation marketing 8. Podcast marketing 9. Workshop marketing 10. Book marketing 11. Drip marketing 12. Referral marketing

Jay Niblick

#61. I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.

William James

#62. I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

Vance Havner

#63. No one can teach us the joy of living; we are endowed with it. So why are we continually waiting for the lecture?

Dee Hock

#64. I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me.
Just tell me where you are.

Melina Marchetta

#65. As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

Thomas Jefferson

#66. Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

Eric Mazur

#67. I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.

Henry David Thoreau

#68. His moral lecture
blazed with hate.
What could have driven a child that far?

Dag Hammarskjold

#69. This morning's lecture was on how to avoid ninjas, which might have been interesting if step one hadn't been "Stay out of Japan." Furthermore, Crandall had quickly become sidetracked,

Stuart Gibbs

#70. Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

Richard Holmes

#71. The girls were riveted by Georgia's lecture on the importance of sports bras and the dangers of the uni-boob, double busting, slippage, unsightly bulges, and my personal favorite, head lighting. I thought she made valid points and I would never have guessed that bouncing boobs were so problematic.

Ashlan Thomas

#72. I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out."
Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse.
"Can we help you, Alex?" a voice bellows through the speaker.
"I'm bein' tortured.

Simone Elkeles

#73. Lecture your children every day. You may not know what they did wrong, but they do!

Joanne Fluke

#74. She mesmerized lecture halls of students with her drama and passion, with ideas critics called daring and groundbreaking.

Jandy Nelson

#75. When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

Howard Barker

#76. Lecture all you want, you picked me up when I was down and I guess I owe you that, but don't tell me about pain. Nobody knows unless they're on the inside.

Stephen King

#77. If a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.

Leonard Mlodinow

#78. Now, on his way to another lecture, the very thought of entering a room full of students, who still thought it was possible to learn all about something, made him yawn.

Matthew Pearl

#79. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

Dustin Moskovitz

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

Rick Riordan

#81. 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.

Virginia Woolf

#82. I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Stephen Hawking

#83. Irish girls, red hair,' I replied, remembering a picture of them from Mrs. Casnoff's 'People Who Want to Kill Us All' lecture at Hex Hall last year.

Rachel Hawkins

#84. His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

Mary Antin

#85. I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

Anthony Storr

#86. Hahahaha, so watching him giving a lecture is an aphrodisiac?

Ika Natassa

#87. The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Herbert Croly

#88. Trey scoffed. "Between you and me, Brayden's probably the last guy in the world you have to worry about. I think he's as clueless as you are. If I didn't care about your virtue so much, I'd actually probably give him a lecture on 'how' to try something." -Trey, pg. 70

Richelle Mead

#89. I have looked high." Her voice was an urgent whisper. "And I have fallen farther than you can imagine. So don't you lecture me. All I want is to pretend that this is enough - that I can be satisfied by the scraps that remain to me. " He had

Courtney Milan

#90. Knowledge is not imposing. Knowledge is fun. Anyone, given time and inclination, can acquire it. Don't only lecture, but continue to learn, because there is always much more than you know.

Anonymous

#91. A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.

Gideon Haigh

#92. It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

Michael Moritz

#93. My parents never really lecture me.

Georgia Jagger

#94. What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.

Nathan Seiberg

#95. What was that you showed Sonya?"
Dimitri suddenly joined Rose on the screen. She shot him an amused look. "Easy, comrade. You'll get your chance to lecture them too."
"Geez," said Adrian. "How many other people are there lurking off-screen?

Richelle Mead

#96. My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Seamus Heaney

#97. Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.

Sheldon L. Glashow

#98. Langdon always ended this lecture with a reminder that Arab culture had also given mankind the word al-kuhl - the favorite beverage of Harvard freshmen - known as alcohol.

Dan Brown

#99. Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

William Osler

#100. Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

Jacob Gates