Quotes About Study

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists.

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market - my dad was a financial adviser - and I was going to go down that path. I was an intern at Smith Barney.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

I am an ocean lover and fish watcher and had studied marine biology and even taught marine sciences before I got into animation.

I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians.

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could already picture myself in the cockpit of an airliner or in a military fighter plane. I felt deep in my heart this was my thing!

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.