Quotes About Perspective

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.

Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'

People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.

Scoring well is great, but not at the cost of straining yourself. Students need to know that there is a life beyond these marks. They should know that five-six years down the line, they will laugh it off.

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message, because the best authors do not have obvious messages. These authors were disturbing to my students because of their perspectives on life.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So I wasn't inclined to take a biology course. But my father insisted, and maybe what he had in mind was that, if there were no jobs in physics, I would end up being a doctor.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.

Everybody looks back on what they studied and what they grew up with.

I studied journalism and was idealistic as a student. In course of time, I learnt that there's a lot of politics, and it's not easy to put forth your point of view as an investigative journalist.

I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

I'm not disinterested in the rest of the world, but studies show the rest of the world is really freaking far away.