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Quotes About Courses

Throughout my career, some of my best hires have been people who have bypassed the traditional route of university and learned their skills through apprenticeship schemes or alternative education courses.
~ Peter Jones
I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
~ Marv Levy
I took a lot of writing courses.
~ Danny Strong
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
~ Walter Jon Williams
I took pre-med courses in college.
~ Camille Grammer
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.
~ Thomas Friedman
I knew that the stupidest students, the silliest professors, and the worst bull courses are concentrated in schools of education
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Get good at sales. Sorry, but if you're in business, you're in the business of sales, cuz without sales, you ain't got no business. Take courses, discover the parts about sales that you're good at (it goes deeper than you think), practice, get good at the skill sets, and stop saying how much you love everything about your business except the sales part.
~ Jen Sincero
I FEEL AS THOUGH I AM EATING the alphabet. Twenty-six courses of letters, each with its own distinctive flavor. It is inevitable that some letters will taste delicious, others not so much. Some will have a delicate flavor, others will be more like a hearty peasant stew.
~ Ammon Shea
It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
~ Karrie Webb
Even companies like Baidu and Google, which have amazing AI teams, cannot do all the work needed to get us to an AI-powered society. I thought the best way to get us there would be creating courses to welcome more people to deep learning.
~ Andrew Ng
Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.
~ George Nethercutt
I've always loved maths, so in college when I started engineering, I had applied math and I really liked it, so I overloaded my courses and did two degrees.
~ Momina Mustehsan
There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played.
~ Smokey Robinson
A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.
~ Chen-Ning Yang
I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
~ Eddie Huang
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit.
~ Jonathan Galassi
All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn't even funny. Advertising is an art.
~ George Lois
The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
~ Stanley B. Prusiner
Commentary by J.-P. Quélin, food critic for Le Monde). [New York and London chefs] are cooking, he says, at a level of originality that defies judgment, defies criticism, defies the grammar of cuisine. (This I think is true. When I took my brother to L'Arpege for his birthday we got fourteen -small- courses ... that made even the best of the old cuisine look like sludge.)
~ Adam Gopnik
In effect, we have a cafeteria-style curriculum in which the appetizers and desserts can easily be mistaken for the main courses' ... This "curricular smorgasbord," combined with extensive student choice, led to a situation in which only small proportions of high school students completed standard, intermediate, and advanced courses.
~ Diane Ravitch
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.
~ W. S. Gilbert