Quotes About Former Students

#1. Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or because of economic rewards. A few of my former students have even become millionaires.

Frederick Lenz

#2. John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

M.H. Abrams

#3. I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don't know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

Rafe Esquith

#4. I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gail Kelly

#5. Her former Columbia Law mentee Diane Zimmerman remembers the exuberant party thrown by students and faculty. RBG sat on the floor giggling, eating Kentucky Fried Chicken out of a bucket.

Irin Carmon

#6. Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.

Fred Savage

#7. The calming sea reaches out to me. Inviting me to its pure serenity."-Elizabeth's Quotes (inspired by a Pablo Neruda quote "I need the sea because it teaches me.")

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#8. A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story.

Jennifer Brown

#9. The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Barbara Coloroso

#10. There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

Lafcadio Hearn

#12. I didn't want them to look at me after saying something about Black people, didn't want to have to avert my eyes so they didn't see me studying them, studying the entitlement they wore like another piece of clothing.

Jesmyn Ward

#13. Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

Danielle LaPorte

#14. You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

Harold Ramis

#15. With a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students

Gary Shteyngart

#16. Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

Thomas Perry

#17. The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

Khalil Gibran

#18. Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

Michael Ruppert

#19. The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wisdom to prefer the former to the latter.

William J. Bennett

#20. AFTER YEARS OF BEING ASKED to do more with less, managers are increasingly aware that they cannot produce the results that are expected of them with the organizations they currently have and the methods they currently use.

Alan G. Robinson

#21. He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'" - Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Lee Kuan Yew

#22. President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to succeed they need to work hard and study hard. Then today, former President George W. Bush presented the rebuttal.

Conan O'Brien

#23. She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.

Tamora Pierce

#24. In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

Allan Sherman