Student Quotes

If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Graduate study is an intensive education.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the art of creativity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.

~ Mike Norton

Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.

~ Elizabeth F. Barkley

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity quickens the mind, awakens the spirit and strength the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let there be a child, who should,not be taught. Let there be a child, who should,be refrained from books. Let him not hear, don’t preach him, dear. Don’t let him read the quotations,on internet and make them his passion. Don’t tell him stories of successful,and make them his anthem.Allow him to grow unto what,he is to know.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

~ Chris Matakas

Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her parents asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.

~ Lev Grossman

Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power had a way of distorting your personality. And to actually want to work that hard, you had to be at least a little bit screwed up.

~ Lev Grossman

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

~ Criss Jami

Whoever study the Holy Scripture, shall find the sacredness of the Holy WORDS.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read to find life treasures

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Day by day, there exists the possibility for the dream to come true.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

True education kindles the student's mind but teaching fills the mind with information.

~ Debasish Mridha

Choosing the right career is the most difficult task for a person who is multi-talented and versatile. Because its hard to decide what field to go into, when you are good at too many things.

~ Saad Salman

It is the possibility of the dream, which quickens my spirit to take action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must dare greatly.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are learning to be an expert.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.

~ Amit Kalantri

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rather than on 'substance'. The dramatic and rapid changes of 'substance' elude these accusers. Survival is not possible if one approaches his environment, the social drama, with a fixed, unchangeable point of view - the witless repetitive response to the unperceived.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

The college bookstore was a splash of life, culture, and society. As a psychology student, I often found myself intrigued by the behavior, ways of thinking and feeling, and general schemata of others, and this was the perfect spot to engage my senses.Other times, I was just annoyed.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was I meeting people with multiplicity; these individuals entering my life were normal human beings with much to offer. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it.

~ Deborah Bray Haddock

With diligent practice, you will be an expert.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to discovery many things by yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?

~ Paul Lockhart

The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time will tell, so you got to persist!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a lazy student). I would ride the Greyhound for thirty-six hours down from the Midwest to Leechfield, then spend days dressed in black in the scalding heat of my mother’s front porch reading Homer (or Ovid or Virgil) and waiting for someone to ask me what I was reading. No one ever did. People asked me what I was drinking, how much I weighed, where I was living, and if I had married yet, but no one gave me a chance to deliver my lecture on Great Literature.

~ Mary Karr