Quotes About Intelligent Students

#1. My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

James D. Watson

#2. Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

Maya Angelou

#3. I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.

Diana Krall

#4. With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

Abraham Maslow

#5. Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution.

Jonathan Wells

#6. If I represent the pinnacle of family success for all the Jason Dessens, Jason2 represents the professional and creative apex. We're opposite poles of the same man, and I suppose it isn't a coincidence that Jason2 sought out my life from the infinite possibilities available. Though

Blake Crouch

#7. Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly your teacher. These are methods that have been handed down for thousands of years.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The older they became the less time they spent together, and the less time they spent together the less dissatisfaction they felt toward each other.

Richard House

#9. You haven't asked me about Arin," Roshar said as he rode alongside him.
"What?"
"The tiger. Not the surly human.

Marie Rutkoski

#10. Writers aren't born, they're made
from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

Alexander Chee

#11. The struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

Paul David Tripp

#12. You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. Forgiveness is knowing and remembering what happened, but choosing to move beyond it.

Ashley Ormon

#14. Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#16. When a long abuse of power is corrected, it is generally replaced by an opposite violence. In the new dispensation all that was good in what went before is tarred indiscriminately with the bad.

John McGahern

#17. Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.

Doris Betts

#18. I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.

Andrew Lloyd Webber