Top 100 Quotes About Courses
#1. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.
Josh Kaufman
#2. I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
Kent McCord
#3. Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
Juvenal
#4. If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.
Robin Hoyle
#5. Who knows what courses their lives would have taken if I had done differently?
Merrie Haskell
#6. There is something in the universe that responds to brave, intrepid thought. The Power that holds and that moves the stars in their courses, fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has power and magic in it.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#8. Don't they teach y'all anythin' in school these days?"
She frowned. Apparently they needed to improve the current How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse 101 courses.
Amy Cook
#9. Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.
Gore Vidal
#10. I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I've ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.
Lucy Punch
#11. I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#12. How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.
Jerry Stahl
#13. Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.
Wilbur Smith
#14. Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
Peter Singer
#15. For a few unfortunate kids, winter did not spell the end of the school year. There were the so-called voluntary winter courses. No kid I knew ever volunteered to go to these classes; parents, of course, did the volunteering for them.
Khaled Hosseini
#16. I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
Theodore Sturgeon
#17. 'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.
Edward P. Jones
#18. But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
Darrell Royal
#19. I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
Ray Harryhausen
#20. Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.
Donald Trump
#22. There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
David Puttnam
#23. I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.
Didi Conn
#24. We're almost like Bonnie & Clyde. Of course, he's Bonnie and I'm Clyde.
Alex Riley
#25. In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.
Peter Lindbergh
#26. I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.
Gilbert Harding
#27. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.
Maureen Corrigan
#28. I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.
Robert Sternberg
#29. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
George Washington
#30. Golf in India is considered an elite sport. It is not possible for everyone to play in private courses. We need to give opportunities to all who want to play the sport. And for that, we need public golf courses.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#31. Sharia ... is, of course, invalid because it's God's Law, and God doesn't exist.
Pat Condell
#32. But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
Joseph Stiglitz
#33. I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?
Anant Agarwal
#34. TRAINING FOR ANY ASPECT MEANS TO KEEP IT IN RIGHT TRACK AS PER MODERN GLOBAL RUN.NEITHER WEAKNESS NOR SOUNDNESS COUNTS NOTHING.
Various
#35. I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.
Jessica Hische
#36. One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
Jay Parini
#37. The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different.
Tiger Woods
#38. You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.
Clark Moustakas
#40. They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#41. We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem ... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.
George R R Martin
#42. I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. He left the room, and closeted himself in the dark, buzzing space where he raised his wasps and plotted the courses of heavenly bodies.
Kim Newman
#44. The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
Franz Grillparzer
#45. Earth and air, fire and water, the stars in their courses, the high tide of destiny and the Will of divine Providence are all arrayed against the forces of oppression. -- Louis Gregory
Janet Ruhe-Schoen
#46. Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
Gaston Caperton
#47. Autonomy ... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.
Thomas Szasz
#48. With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.
Roy Romer
#49. Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
John Irving
#50. She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Henry James
#51. The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
Isaac Watts
#52. The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.
Mike Weir
#53. One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
Tobias Wolff
#54. When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
William Slim
#55. Churchill used words for different purposes: to argue for moral and political causes, to advocate courses of action in the social, national and international spheres, and to tell the story of his own life and that of Britain and its place in the world.
Winston S. Churchill
#57. Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
Norman Angell
#58. We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.
Herman Melville
#59. The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
Michel De Montaigne
#60. Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
Jack Nicklaus
#61. While he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.
Herman Melville
#62. Oh, I took some night school courses in psychology, said Bill Compton, vampire.
Charlaine Harris
#63. There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.
John Dos Passos
#64. I told Clooney, George, you're worth $100 million - of course you can afford to be a socialist!
Kevin Sorbo
#65. You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.
Thomas Sowell
#66. I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing, fun courses.
Tiger Woods
#67. Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.
Harry S. Truman
#68. Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.
Terry Pratchett
#69. For the next few minutes, there was a thorough rehashing of the courses (That meat was delicious. The sauce was perfect. And ooh that chocolate mousse.) This was a social nicety that seemed more prevalent the higher you climbed the social ladder and the less your hostess cooked.
Amor Towles
#70. The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.
Sherwood Anderson
#71. Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.
James Salter
#72. An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.
Veronica Roth
#73. Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.
Charles M. Schwab
#74. Of course, western is my native music,
Ken Curtis
#75. Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.
John Bayley
#76. Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.
Tom Watson
#77. Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
Lucy Walker
#78. groupthink occurs when people "are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group," and their "strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.
Adam M. Grant
#79. Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
Karen Joy Fowler
#80. Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.
Aristophanes
#81. Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior and champion you envision yourself to be.
Gene Simmons
#82. This is one of the most special golf courses in the planet.
Graeme McDowell
#83. In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
P.G. Wodehouse
#84. Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Rosalind Russell
#85. I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
Patrick Carman
#86. George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal furniture is in no way suited to its general courses and currents.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#87. All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#88. Go not to the Elves for counsel,
for they will say both no and yes.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice,
for advice is a dangerous gift,
even from the wise to the wise,
and all courses may run ill.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#89. Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.
Terry Pratchett
#90. Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.
Jay Parini
#91. One of the French officers was horrified that at a dinner in Washington's tent, His Excellency served the meal not in a succession of courses like in civilization. Apparently Washington "gave, on the same plate, meat, vegetables, and salad." On the same plate? Were these Americans people or animals?
Sarah Vowell
#92. Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
Charles Dickens
#94. The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
Henry Grunwald
#95. In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.
Sydney Brenner
#96. Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.
Thomas L. Dumm
#97. Any power, of course, depends upon the values of the person exercising the power.
Mark Pellegrino
#98. Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.
Morris Kline
#99. Teachers who pander to minority students by turning their courses into rap sessions and ethnic navel-gazing exercises capture their interest and allegiance.
Thomas Sowell
#100. The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
William Scott
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