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education couple winter
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A. Carl Friedrich Gauss
education winter science
I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
education teaching science
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.
education book men
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind. Agnes Smedley
education brother children
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother. Agnes Repplier
education teaching easy
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
education language liberal-education
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
education healing grace
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. Alan K. Simpson
education men thinking
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
organization boards purpose
Any person, institution or organization that conveys bodies or parts of bodies into or out of the state for medical education or research purposes shall notify the Anatomical Board of such intent and receive approval from the board. Charlie Crist
organization want individual
I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational! Charles Stross
organization needs culture
In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes. Brian Chesky
organization ties sept-11
But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks. Brent Scowcroft
organization care comfort
Most of us entered journalism and joined news organizations because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. David Shuster
organization two target
I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts. David Rubenstein
organization people mediocrity
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity. Carlos Slim
organization misunderstood mind
It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar? Alan Ball
organization principles promotion
The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization. Chris Alexander
training mind spirit
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
training java degrees
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. Alan Kay
training felt
I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good. David Ginola
training mind lasts
My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the turn of the last century. We are a whole century behind in absorbing the leaps that quantum theory made for the human mind. Vandana Shiva
training fifteen heroines
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine... Jane Austen
training heroic mundane
The only training for the heroic is the mundane. Edmund Burke
training crosses intensity
Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover. Brett Hoebel
training scuba done
I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool. Ashley Scott
training economist
I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist. Ben Stein