Faculty Quotes

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(His impression of Harvard University) Well, the faculty at the Kennedy School of Government was pretty good when I was there. The most interesting class I had was `Persuasion`, and I use a lot of the points I learned there on the air to try to get people to listen to you so they understand it.

- Bill O'Reilly

I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.

- Nancy Cartwright

(On his wife, Monica Bellucci): Her best asset of actress - and woman too! - is not her beauty, but her intelligence. Her intelligence of people and of things. She is very perspicacious, very attentive with the others and has a great faculty to put them at ease. To work with her, I would say, to put besides any concept of couple, that it is as when I find Mathieu (Kassovitz): together, one goes more directly to essence. Plus, she is an incredible hard worker. She has a curiosity of cinema which is rare. She is moved by the directors, she is very listening... In general, I recognize it, I am interested more in the actors than in the actresses - is already well to recognize it! But her, she has something that few actresses have. A manner of exceeding reality, of making dream. I like to look at her playing...

- Vincent Cassel

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

- Ashley Montagu

My visit has been great, ... I got a chance to learn a lot from the faculty.

- Dikembe Mutombo

We were especially gratified that he brought in (VCU art faculty members) to consult on what the museum needed in its expansion to make it more useful for educational purposes,

- James Farmer

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

- John Ciardi

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

- John Nash

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

- George Bancroft

We are moving forward every year and the faculty and staff are some of the most caring people I`ve ever met, ... This is a university that knows its students by name and not by number and that shows in our staff.

- Jack Hawkins

It is a special opportunity for the community, students and faculty to speak with Mexicans.

- Susie Porter

What our faculty are doing are writing grants to people outside the university and bringing money in, ... This money gets into the Columbus economy through tax dollars, buying supplies and services from local vendors, and even things like cars.

- Rich Hall

The faculty will be a little more relaxed this semester, because we know that problems are inevitable.

- Carol Miller

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

- Jane Austen

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient--at others, so bewildered and so weak--and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are to be sure a miracle every way--but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out.

- Jane Austen

Michael Kahn`s extraordinary leadership of our Drama Division has allowed our young actors to acquire the requisite tools they will need as they work in the profession in the time ahead. With intelligence, taste, creativity and a deep understanding of the world of the theater, Michael`s legacy will have a positive impact on the profession for many generations. My colleagues and I are very pleased that Michael will remain as an active member of the Juilliard community through his continuing teaching responsibilities at the School. Juilliard has been one of my artistic homes throughout my theatrical career. I am grateful to the students and faculty for inspiring me and allowing me to grow both as a person and as an artist. Although I have determined that most of my energy and time needs to be concentrated now in Washington, I am more than pleased to remain on the faculty of this extraordinary institution.

- Michael Kahn

It`s another avenue where faculty are looking at students and student eligibility. The league has received a few calls with questions about electronic sites.

- Craig Perry

He just loves universities and is enthusiastic about what we do with our students and our faculty, ... He beams every time a student wins an award or a faculty member has a significant publication or research grant or teaching award. In my way of thinking, he represents the best in American higher education.

- John Peters

(Provost) is one of the most important positions at the university for students and faculty, ... The provost sets the academic standards. I just feel so fortunate that I was able to attract someone of Ivan`s caliber and experience here. He`s been very good for NIU.

- John Peters

The new building will have eight classrooms, with a faculty lounge, offices and a library. The facility will have the latest technology with audio enhancement equipment, smart boards and computers in every room. There will also be a small computer lab as well.

- David Armstrong

The impact we see is not just with new hires, but with faculty who`ve been here a couple of years. They`ve rented and now they want to buy. They are feeling squeezed out of the market.

- David Wagner

The cost of living is increasing and there is a lot of pressure to increase faculty and staff wages.

- Robert Cooper

During the `Think Tank` we ask questions that rise from the course of the week. We talk about how Sam could be more diverse; we actually come up with different programs based on the different issues that student and faculty come up with during the think tank.

- Jennifer Roberts

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

- John Calvin

It gives them a chance to meet other students and get to know the faculty before classes start.

- Peggy Church

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

- Marquis de Sade

I taught in a small teacher`s college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn`t.

- David Eddings

Since I was notified about the recognition, I`ve experienced a number of thoughts and emotions '” some pride, a big dose of humility, but mostly I`ve reflected on how fortunate I`ve been to work with so many talented faculty/staff and board members throughout my career, ... As the saying goes, '˜It takes a team.

- Michael Morrison

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

- Adam Clymer

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

- Adam Deadmarsh

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man`s onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

- Aidan Kavanagh

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

- Alan Sandals

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

- Aletha Kaohi

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.

- Allan Meltzer

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

- Alvaro Diago

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

- Alvin Wright

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.

- Amadeu Altafaj Tardio

Our teachers are responsible for our children`s welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

- Amarri Jackson

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

- Andi Burr

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

- Andre Bakhos

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It`s also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

- Andre Parker

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it`s not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.

- Andre Parker

I`d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

- Andrew Mwenda

This is new this year for this group. The key to the success we`ve had is that we have worked closely with the students` families, and we have had support from the administration, faculty and PTA.

- Anna Peterson

Each institution maintains its separate identity, but the partnership in terms of space and library and just the cross-pollination of student life and faculty life '¦ has been a very positive thing.

- Anne McCormack

It`s very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.

- Annette Davis

I most remember the Black faculty lunches he would host while working as the faculty assistant for affirmative action. It was the only place on campus you could regularly meet colleagues from across the various departments and hear about issues that affected our community.

- Anoumone Kittirath

It usually takes a diversity of backgrounds to put together a very competitive contract. This will give us an opportunity to develop these contracts. It is an entrepreneurial opportunity for our faculty and students.

- Anthony Gagliardi

Given limits on the size of departments, and as we try to have some diversity in terms of research specialties, it means that having one person depart can leave a real gap, ... If we lose those three people, yes, there will be a shortfall, but it`s not like there`s no one here for majors to work with. But when you find a professor`s work inspiring and then suddenly that person`s going, it`s not really satisfying to be told there are plenty of faculty left.

- Anthony Stewart

Within my particular sub-field, we have a congenial group of students and faculty. We all have real interests in common and things to talk about with each other, and we get along. The more people who are in a department, or part of a department, the more likely it is that some of them are not going to get along with each other.

- Anthony Stewart