#lecture

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #lecture #nonfiction #philosophy #self-reliance

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#dangerous #fog #laboratories #lecture #libraries

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#course #flowery #give #hunger #inequality

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. ↗

— George Wald

#lecture #many #more #much #probably

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time. ↗

— George Wald

#coming #faces #information #keep #keeps

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#business school #harvard #i #lectured #school

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. ↗

— Michael Caine

#class #get #lecture #me #otherwise

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. ↗

— George Combe

#admission #air #allowed #attention #brief

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#continuing #current #education #even #go

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#authors #come #funnier #hope #largely