Top 100 Student Quotes
#1. I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.
Catherine Hardwicke
#2. I was a good student. I was lame. I was into school and didn't really go out much, so I guess I wasn't the coolest person on the planet.
Rita Volk
#3. The narcissism of student movements, new Left ideologues and the popular culture of the '60s generation invited a conservative backlash.
Tony Judt
#4. We cannot give our students all that they expect, whether by way of the quality of their schooling or by way of the jobs that they were hoping to get. Student frustration is a worldwide phenomenon, pushing our societies into adjusting faster than they are used to.
Arthur Lewis
#5. The best student in the world can only be as good as their teacher
Joshua Teya
#6. It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London
George W. Bush
#7. As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.
Bernie Sanders
#8. I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.
Jack Kirby
#9. The Death of Money is an engrossing account of the massive stresses accumulating in the global financial system, especially since the 2008 financial crisis. Jim Rickards is a natural teacher. Any serious student of financial crises and their root causes needs to read this book.
John H. Makin
#10. The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!
LeRoy Neiman
#11. I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.
Patti Stanger
#12. I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'
John Eccles
#13. When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.
Robert Redford
#14. Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
John Astin
#15. The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#17. I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.
Nancy Knowlton
#18. I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.
Cesar Milstein
#19. Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.
Fiore Dei Liberi
#20. MY CHILD IS AN HONOR STUDENT AT THE STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,
Stephen King
#21. My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.
Oscar Micheaux
#22. The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.
Chris Carter
#23. The bulk of the crowd looked like professors and their wives from Amherst. One of the problems, according to a bushy young radical-talking non-student from Boston, was that you had to pay a "registration fee" of two dollars before you got a vote.
Hunter S. Thompson
#24. If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs.
Assegid Habtewold
#25. If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively.
Marilyn Jager Adams
#26. And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about what you know. And what I knew - of course I knew jazz, but I also knew country, blues and some rock and roll. And that came out.
Larry Coryell
#27. A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#28. It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.
Adam Fletcher
#29. To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
Jan Morris
#30. When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.
Mary Hatwood Futrell
#31. I was a horrible student. I really hated school.
Craig Venter
#32. My wife, Dixie, is evangelical Christian. We met in the Reagan White House, when she was a student intern. We're members of the Horizon Christian Fellowship Church.
Dinesh D'Souza
#33. I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.
Mr. T
#34. The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
#35. G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.
Ralph Fletcher
#36. As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.
Jesse L. Martin
#37. A young Harvard student, traveled west to Oklahoma to live among the Kiowa and participate in the solemn rites of the peyote cult. In one photograph the land appears as a blur of dust, the sky fading to gray, the air darkened by soil worked loose by the wind, the farmhouses
Wade Davis
#38. You can't be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.
Austin Kleon
#39. America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
Barack Obama
#40. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.
Richard P. Feynman
#41. American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.
Thomas Mallon
#42. Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
Sidney Altman
#43. The Heart is your Student,
For love is the only way we learn.
Rumi
#44. I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.
Nicolas Cage
#45. Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
James Dyson
#46. On student films, everyone is pitching in to do everything, and I never felt like I was a part of a group before I started acting. I always felt like I had friends in this group and I had friends in that group, but I never felt like I had my group.
Mickey Sumner
#47. All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.
Bodhidharma
#48. Teacher: Suppose you have a box which contains a ten-foot snake. Student: But Mr. Malone, snakes don't have feet! ***
Various
#49. Student diversity in classrooms increases the need for diversity in teaching approaches.
Kay M. Price
#50. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
Barack Obama
#51. I was not use to that kind of hunger, even as a poor college student.
Julie Wenzel
#52. It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#53. Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
Alex Kapranos
#54. A student was given a mentoring opportunity, in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.
Thomas Hughes
#55. "A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle
J.C. Ryle
#57. I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
Scott Turow
#58. The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is - Time! - Time! - Time!
George Poulett Scrope
#60. I was a good student but I was also one of those people that could not got to class and then the day before the exam stay up all night (studying), which I do not recommend doing. But that's more the kind of thing you do when you're younger and you're in college in a band and wanted to party, too.
Jeff Kendrick
#61. By this edition of HAMLET I hope to help the student of Shakspere to understand the play - and first of all Hamlet himself, whose spiritual and moral nature are the real material of the tragedy, to
George MacDonald
#62. I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good.
Michael Heizer
#63. We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.
Thomas Kean Jr.
#64. I'm not honestly a real student of animation. I never was into it all that much. I don't really watch any animated shows.
Steve Dildarian
#65. The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student's inward teacher is ignored ... we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.
Parker J. Palmer
#66. But other beings shouldn't be forgotten. You knew that when you were a student, felt that need from those no one else wanted to think about. Even demons need a home. Even a dark landscape should feel the warmth of the Light. Why have you forgotten that?
Anne Bishop
#67. Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.
Frederick Lenz
#68. There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.
Paul Graham
#69. Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.
Dinesh D'Souza
#70. My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.
Russell Smith
#71. It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#72. Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath. KABIR
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#73. Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
Alexis Bledel
#74. I'm white and everything is made for me." A black female student said, "I'm straight. I can hold hands with my boyfriend without fearing violence." Another student said, "I'm a Christian. I can wear my cross necklace to school and no one calls me a terrorist." A
Brene Brown
#76. 1951, Martin graduated from Crozer. He was the top student in his class.
Bonnie Bader
#77. The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,
Thomas Hughes
#78. I told my parents she's a low-income student from inner-city Philadelphia who's going through some tough times at home right now, and I'm doing this as an outreach program through Rosewood Day. Amazingly, they bought it.
Sara Shepard
#80. The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators.
Michelle Grabner
#81. I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
Al Sharpton
#82. I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.
Christine O'Donnell
#83. My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.
Tyra Banks
#84. A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.
Howard Whitley Eves
#85. Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.
Anthony Marra
#86. She stopped when she saw the student Jason bowing his head with his eyes closed. "Jason, what are you doing?" He popped his gum, "I'm praying over Ms. Brenda's naps.
Emmanuel Sullivan
#87. True education kindles the student's mind but teaching fills the mind with information.
Debasish Mridha
#88. I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.
Mindy Kaling
#89. If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.
Lemony Snicket
#90. If you are a student, try to be a teacher; if you are a teacher, try to be a student!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#92. My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
Gabriel Mann
#93. I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that's an important form of sport and recreation, too.
Bill Bowerman
#94. The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.
Julius Sumner Miller
#95. A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
Georges St-Pierre
#96. The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.
Kenneth Ring
#97. The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.
Marshall McLuhan
#98. Motivation of this sort, once it catches hold, is a ferocious force, and in the gradeless, degreeless institution where our student would find himself, he wouldn't stop with rote engineering information.
Robert M. Pirsig
#99. Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.
Mahershala Ali
#100. Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.
Robert Webb
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