Top 100 Quotes About Courses
#1. It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#2. Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.
Umberto Eco
#3. To succeed means you to sail across some difficult courses.
Auliq Ice
#4. Walt Disney was a visionary leader. He had no leadership books or training courses to give him guidance. He operated, as many great leaders do, on instinct and observation.
Jim Korkis
#5. Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.
Fran Lebowitz
#6. Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
John McCarthy
#7. Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.
Charles Evans Hughes
#8. English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of publications in English and courses taught in English.
Henry Rosovsky
#9. Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
Marilyn Hacker
#10. We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.
Rick Perry
#11. I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.
Martha Stewart
#12. Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
Samuel E. Morison
#13. I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
Robert Sternberg
#14. I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.
Matteo Manassero
#15. I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.
Stephen Colbert
#16. Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo,
Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto;
E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto.
(You see both poles at once, the travelling stars in their winding courses, and you see just how limited our seeing really is.)
Francesco Petrarca
#17. In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
David Sax
#18. Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.
Mario Batali
#19. Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
Herodotus
#20. Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
Charles Caleb Colton
#21. I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
Adam Kluger
#22. The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.
Ian Somerhalder
#23. He will use the word "love", and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything.
Sue Monk Kidd
#24. Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.
Bobby Scott
#25. Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.
Izumi Shikibu
#26. You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.
Kimberly Sabatini
#27. A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
Harold E. Varmus
#28. Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time ... played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.
Jack Nicklaus
#29. Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
W.S. Gilbert
#30. Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.
W. H. Auden
#31. I have been requesting the government because it is the government which has to allocate the land to build public courses. I am willing to meet the minister and discuss ways to make courses public and more accessible to the regular sports enthusiasts.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#32. I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
Ben Fountain
#33. In the 1940s and 1950s, the grass surface on most miniature golf courses was actually goat hair that had been dyed green.
Will Pearson
#34. The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.
Mario J. Molina
#35. I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
Marv Levy
#36. I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.
Lewis Thomas
#37. beliefs create or constrain possibilities, desires lead to preferences among them, and intentions represent commitments to specific courses of action. Each of the primitive elements can evolve in time, which is why mental models have momentum.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#38. Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger ... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.
Matthew Goode
#39. I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.
Matthew Pearl
#40. There is number of different efforts around the country are to try to redesign the math pathway and the courses that students have to take to make it more applicable to the real world.
Anya Kamenetz
#41. I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.
Jack Canfield
#42. I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
John Burnside
#43. Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#44. A young girl must have her lover in all courses of the sun and moon.
J.M. Synge
#45. No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance
Douglas Adams
#46. Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.
Charles Duhigg
#47. They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.
Irmgard Keun
#48. Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
Horace Bushnell
#49. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars.
A million suns.
Beth Revis
#50. Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
Elie Wiesel
#51. I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
Jack Nicklaus
#52. You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
Adam Derek Scott
#53. Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
Joe Henderson
#54. I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
Thomas Heatherwick
#55. We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.
Mark Kennedy
#56. He knows that kind of love. It is what he feels for Gallicina. It is the world reformed, made new, each time the lover sees the beloved's face. It is the miracle which makes the cosmos dance, which keeps the planets in their courses, which fuels the fire of the stars. It is salvation.
Susan Palwick
#57. I didn't drop out of school, I placed out of it. I took correspondence courses and ended up graduating early. I did everything I could to get the hell out of there.
Amber Heard
#58. Blood is pounding in my ears. Lingering smoke and tequila fill my nostrils as adrenaline courses through my veins. My lips curl into a smile. The only thing that would make this night more perfect is if I had killed some zombies.
Annie Walls
#59. It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinee in Hull - it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction. Come to think of it, I never did play to a good matinee in Hull ...
Noel Coward
#60. There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin.
Tiger Woods
#61. You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
Hank Ketcham
#62. If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.
Melody Beattie
#63. I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
Dale T. Mortensen
#64. Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
Irwin Rose
#65. Restaurants with small courses that give the customer choices, and that don't obligate them to spend a fortune, are going to do very well.
Danny Meyer
#67. All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.
Jonas Armstrong
#68. There was no girls' cross-country team at our high school, since cross-country courses were two or three miles long, and, at that distance, a girl's uterus could fall out.
Gretchen Reynolds
#69. There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played.
Smokey Robinson
#70. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
James McHenry
#71. Ben sighed, his mouth crammed with biscuit. "You don't trust us at all, do you? You think we're going to whip out our knobs between courses and show you up.
Kate Saunders
#72. Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.
Charley Pride
#73. There were more courses than O.J. has alibis.
Erin Gruwell
#74. Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.
Kenny Cunningham
#75. Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#76. At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors.
Neal A. Maxwell
#77. It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#79. I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.
Gertrude B. Elion
#80. She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.
Edith Wharton
#81. Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.
Robert T. Bakker
#82. The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
Vijay Kumar
#83. My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.
Tom Weiskopf
#84. All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.
Iain Banks
#85. We set our own courses, and we don't get to bitch about them when they turn out to be shitty.
Emily Foster
#86. The ways of some things are set, like the courses of rivers or the greenness of grass, or the trouble that follows my daddy, or the hard light of knowing in people's eyes.
Donal Ryan
#87. I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#88. Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
Im Dong-Hyun
#89. Even stranger, though, was how, at this very moment, this car with its echoes of death and decisions and life courses forever altered was the one place where Emerson had never felt so vividly alive.
Stephanie Kuehn
#90. advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you? But if you demand advice, I will for friendship's sake give it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#92. As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
Frederic Raphael
#93. Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.
Alister MacKenzie
#94. There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
Peter Hollingworth
#95. I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.
Paul Smith
#96. We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
Matthew Stewart
#97. We have seen that, like the weather, religion "does lots of different things." To claim that it has a single, unchanging, and inherently violent essence is not accurate. Identical religious beliefs and practices have inspired diametrically opposed courses of action.
Karen Armstrong
#98. The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.
Hollis Stacy
#99. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon
#100. In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquium, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.
Amor Towles
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