Professors Quotations

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

Bio Life Technical's strategy of providing technical due diligence by expert professors from core disciplines and world class experts working with interdisciplinary institutes, such as Imperial College's Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will enable a more thorough scientific evaluation of the technology.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor

There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.

In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.

I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries should invest in scholarships for kids to study abroad. Perhaps they could become good and knowledgeable professors in their own countries. You need time for that kind of change, though.

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.

Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.

After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.

Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of science fiction where the Lex Luthors of the world take over. People with exceptional ability, they don't become politicians; they don't become multi-millionaires; some of them just become professors like me, making a measly income.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

We're interested in hearing about supply chain and logistics ideas and problems from central Indiana manufacturers. We have resources to offer them in terms of the expertise of our professors and good students for internships and employment.

We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions,

We're so close to Florida Tech that you get the children of professors and students. We benefit from that.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

There are doctors and lawyers and professors all over Columbia waiting for opportunities like this to get a spot of heaven, to get away from the rat race.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

This program was excellent and offered much more than I expected. The professors were impressive and explained the material in a way that all of us could understand. I really enjoyed the class on real estate because that is an area I hope to get involved in one day.

The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

The professors here have been real interesting, and they're helping me get my foot in the door,

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Many students have dropped classes taught by part-timers because those professors do not have office hours. Struggling students in a class with no office hours sometimes end up falling through the cracks.

Many professors don't realize they can just buy the book. We need to create a reminder system for faculty.

Since Hurricane Katrina, the people of LSU -- students, coaches, administrators, staff and professors -- have played an indispensable role in assisting evacuees and the injured being helped in its campus facilities. Now that the need for this effort is winding down, the LSU campus is anxious to return to as much normalcy as possible. The SEC is cognizant of that and will follow its normal procedures as it comes to television selection and game management issues.

McGill is a university known around the world for a lot of things, mostly for the quality of our students and our professors and the successes of our research and teaching.

Only 1.5 Percent of Law Professors Sign Letter Opposing Roberts.

One of the professors here used to say to us, 'Dr. King's birthday as we celebrate it is not a day off, it's got to be a day on,' and I think that's wonderful, ... And I think that at every moment we have to ask ourselves what we are doing to advance justice.

I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.

I have confidence that qualified professors will be selected to fill the available spots.

Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

Because of the pool problem, we did carefully examine law firms and professors as well in looking for good women and minorities to appoint as district judges and appellate judges.

Unless they break through the brass ceiling of academia by writing best-selling books, like Harold Bloom or Alan Dershowitz, or go to Washington to make policy like Henry Kissinger, college professors can only aspire to limited public recognition.

It is great news for our program and for Craig Henderson . He has spoken to all of his spring term professors and they have all expressed their support for him.

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

I tell recruits, if you come to Colgate, you're going to be taught by outstanding faculty, not graduate assistants. There are a lot of professors who, once they get to know the student-athletes in their classroom, are going to develop a relationship with them.

Most professors are about as exciting as standing in line at the grocery store. About the only thing I can compare him to would either be pizza, the beach or football. You know, even when it's bad it's good.

The aim of the movement isn't really to achieve legislation. It's supposed to act as a cattle prod, to make legislators and universities aware. The ratio of leftwing professors in Berkeley and Stanford is seven to one and nine to one. You can't get hired if you're a conservative in American universities.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

My book is fair comment. The criticism I have of professors is that they aren't professional. Some aren't professional in the classroom the ones portrayed in my book...they have an attitude toward the university that it should be their political soap box.

Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows represent the best new professors in computing disciplines today. The intellectual curiosity and capacity that each fellow has demonstrated is inspirational, and we will watch their careers develop with interest.

We have 10 of these classrooms complete as of now, and we plan on having 10 more finished before the fall semester begins. These rooms will be able to record the audio of the lectures as well as the writings professors may make on the tablet computer so that they could be distributed to the students.

We can sit there and the professors say that we have a voice, but they don't have to listen to us, there is no force there.

We haven't done a faculty show in a couple years so it gave the professors some time to get some new works together.

The quality of the professors was tremendous. They provided practical advice and insights from real world experiences that you can't find in a textbook. I'm involved in real estate and I learned a lot about investments to pursue and, more importantly, investments to avoid.

Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State; it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.

There are legitimate reasons for not meeting deadlines. Sometimes professors may not know which classes they will be teaching. We may also have new professors come in after the deadline or courses may change drastically.

We will be working with professors to generate proposals. We won't simply look at what's out there and give them money, but will look for proposals that have specific automotive and, in Boeing's case, aerospace applications. We are really looking for proposals that will be relevant to both of us.

We all know that tuition is an issue; we all know that fees on campus are an issue. But if this is something that we can fix, and it is just a matter of rallying our professors behind it, then it is something that we talked about, ... We need to find a way to tackle this issue in a proactive, non-abrasive manner because we don't want to upset the faculty; we want to encourage them to make this a priority.

We most definitely felt that we had already won the main purpose of the lawsuit, which is to alert the public of the professors that were misusing university resources for personal reasons,

We felt the need to connect with industry thought leaders who would help direct our product development to meet the future demands of the market. For our market of SOX compliance and financial controls, we reached out to accounting professors who are experts in risk management and corporate governance.

You look around to the faculty, administration here, a lot of them are mainstream white professors and faculty. You have very few people of color.

Breaking into a professors office to steal papers and tests is an example of a reason why a student would be expelled.

As the night progressed, ... I noticed that every 50-something guest felt obligated to pull Leslie aside and offer advice. The doctors named the tests and procedures she should have done. The lawyers advised her about tax and estate planning. The artists recommended exhibits to see or specific masterpieces to view. The professors encouraged her to read specific books, while the financial professionals scribbled stock tips on napkins and told her how to restructure her portfolio.

Coming from being a senior to being the youngest player on the team (is hard). I still have work to do and I'm still trying to correspond with professors and get everything taken care of.

Don't get me wrong ten list, I'm getting a good education but some of my professors just don't get me going.

Dr. Siddique has been with the university since 1985. He became tenured in 1991. There?s a whole routine professors go through, and quality is certainly one of the determining factors. You can intimate that at the point that he went through the process, he was truly a valuable asset to the university.

These professors connect us with future developments of SEC policies and work to push emerging technology solutions for industry adoption.

Right now we're trying to work with faculty and professors about what to do with our classes.

PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.