Browse Professor Quotes
Man who stand on toilet high on pot.
—unknown
Being lazy means that you have to be efficient!
—Success in ATL and Effective Use of Libraries Seminar
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
—Henry David Thoreau
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
—E.E. Cummings
There is nothing in the whole world so painful as the feeling that one is not liked.
—Sei Shonagon
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
—Douglas Adams
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
—James Dean
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
—George Burns
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
—Mahatma Gandhi
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
—Pablo Picasso
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
—Sydney J. Harri
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity
to determine...[your] values and goals...Think of
using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
to determine...[your] values and goals...Think of
using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
—Marsha Sinetar
Love is not what we become but who we already are.
—Stephen Levine
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
—Harvey Mackay
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
—Harvey Mackay
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
—Harvey Mackay
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser
Grenville Kleiser
—Grenville Kleiser
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
—Victor Borge
To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we actually learn, from any given set of
circumstances, determines whether we become
increasingly powerless or more powerful.
circumstances, determines whether we become
increasingly powerless or more powerful.
—Blaine Lee
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
—Robert Half
Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
That can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul.
That can circumvent or hinder or control
The firm resolve of a determined soul.
—Ella Wheller Wilcox
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Art of Peace begins with you...Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all you encounter.
—Morihei Ueshiba
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are
what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle
...even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding...
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
—John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life
A man goes to the eye doctor. The receptionist asks him why he is there. The man complains,
I keep seeing spots in front of my eyes. The receptionist asks, Have you ever seen a
doctor? and the man replies, No, just spots.
I keep seeing spots in front of my eyes. The receptionist asks, Have you ever seen a
doctor? and the man replies, No, just spots.
—unknown
Just before Christmas, an honest politician, a generous lawyer and Santa Claus were riding in the elevator of a very posh hotel. Just before the doors opened they all noticed a $20 bill lying on the floor. Which one picked it up? Santa of course, because the other two don't exist!
—unknown
Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?
—unkown
Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.
—unknown
Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?
—unknown
I poured Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
—unknown
The course was very thorough. What wasn't covered in class was covered on the final exam.
—unknown
A professor was giving a big test one day to his students. He handed out all of the tests and went back to his desk to wait.
Once the test was over the students all handed the tests back in. The professor noticed that one of the students had attached a $100 bill to his test with a note saying A dollar per point.
The next class the professor handed the tests back out. This student got back his test and $64 change
Once the test was over the students all handed the tests back in. The professor noticed that one of the students had attached a $100 bill to his test with a note saying A dollar per point.
The next class the professor handed the tests back out. This student got back his test and $64 change
—unknown
Who has the right of way when four cars approach a four-way stop at the same time?
The pickup truck with the gun rack and the bumper sticker saying, Guns don't kill people. I do.
The pickup truck with the gun rack and the bumper sticker saying, Guns don't kill people. I do.
—unknown
Problems sets are a decoy to lure you away from potential exam material.
—unknown
Recitation was great. It was so confusing that I forgot who I was, where I was, and what I was doing--It's a great stress reliever.
—unknown
Have you ever fallen asleep in class and awoke in another? That's the way I felt all term.
—unknown
He teaches like Speedy Gonzalez on a caffeine high.
—unknown
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
—Andrew Brown
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
—Guy Almes
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
—Winston Churchill-
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
—Leo Buscaglia
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
—Albert Camus
How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you're doing it.
—Dennis the Menace
Don't spend $2 to dry-clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for 75 cents.
—Billiam Coronel
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service willsteadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
—Gandhi
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
—Oscar Levant
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
—Rodney Dangerfield
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
—Richard Braunstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
—Albert Einstein
A mans character is his guardian divinity
—Heraclitus
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
—Dante
Look, just tell him you had sex with his wife!
—Kramer
No soup for you!
—Soup Nazi
Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly
—John F. Kennedy
Everyone has something to hide except for me and my monkey.
—John Lennon
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
—Orison Swett Marden
You gotta motivate yourself. C'mon motivate yourself, motivate yourself!
—Professor Liedholm (EC 340)
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
—Ferris Bueller
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you dont, life controls you.
—Anothony Robbins
A mans character is his guardian divinity
—Heraclitus
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
—H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
—Sean O'Casey
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
—Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943-
Genius...means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
—William James
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
—Leo Burnett
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
—Nikki Giovanni
Ayn Rand Says...
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
—Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron. --
—George Carlin
Well I've got her number! How do ya like them apples?!!
—Will Hunting
Charity and personal growth are the only investments.
—Walt Whitman
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
—Carl Jung
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
—Yogi Berra.
Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
—Matthew 7:7
You college guys are all alike, all you really care about is getting laid. I wish I was going with you.
—-
Mr. Skolnick-Revenge of the Nerds
Is Mike Hunt here? Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?
—Wendy Williams- Porky's
I think I got a fish in my pants. Oh no, wait, that's just me.
—Boomer-Meatballs Part II
Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked, in the head, by an iron boot? Of course you don't--no one does--that never happens.
—Capt. Rex Kramer-Airplane
Without knowing the force of words, itis impossible to know men
—Confucius
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of everyday. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
—Micheal Landon
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
—Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If we all did things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves
—Thomas A. Edison
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life.
—Joseph Conrad
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
—Goethe
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
—W. A. Nance
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
—-Aristotle Onassis
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
—Albert Einstein
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
—Jimi Hendrix
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
—Walt Disney
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
—- Albert Einstein
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
——Mark Twain-
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
—George Burns