Students Talent Quotes

#1. We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#2. Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.

Bernard Crick

#3. By middle school, students have an image of themselves as readers or nonreaders. Students who do not read see reading as a talent that they do not have rather than as an attainable skill.

Donalyn Miller

#4. I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

Burt Bacharach

#5. He was ego-free, which was very rare in the design student world. Most design students had lots of ego and very little talent. Jony was the other way around.

Leander Kahney

#6. Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.

Katherine Dunham

#7. What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#8. Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.

Srikumar Rao

#9. In love there is no status quo.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#10. While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.

Frederick Lenz

#11. When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

Dalai Lama XIV

#12. I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

A.J. Ayer

#13. What they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them.

Flannery O'Connor

#14. Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

Johan Cruijff

#15. Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough

Peter S. Beagle

#16. I'm not this girl," she whispered against his lips. He had to know, this wasn't her. She didn't kiss strange men. She didn't feel this deep hunger inside.
"I know you're not," he said. "But I am this man.

Debbie Viguie

#17. My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

Daniel Kahneman

#18. Again, the resurrection is God's "Amen" to Christ's "It is finished!

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#19. Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not. ... Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.5.2

Charles Duhigg