206 Professor Quotes for You to Enjoy

In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work. Pope Benedict XVI

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. Poppy Z. Brite

Financial Mother Father Economics Office Manager Planner Professor

It's amazing what's buried in old, poorly digitized PDFs hosted on some random professor's website. Randall Munroe

Website Amazing Old Random Some Buried Poorly Professor

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976. Robert Huber

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Professor Tite has played a big role in the Selecao's ascent. He's a brilliant coach, with a unique way of working, but he's also a marvellous person. He makes everyone feel at ease. Roberto Firmino

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I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology. Ron Moody

Would Liked Been Professor Sociology

I've never considered being a cop. I could be a teacher, I could be a minister, a social worker or a professor. As long I don't have to see blood and see people die every day, if I could inspire or help in their lives, that's something I'd want to do. Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy. Russell Johnson

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At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry. Ryoji Noyori

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Some of the beauty of a university is that every professor is given a lot of autonomy over what he or she does. That's also what makes it very hard for even a very forward-thinking president to change courses. Sal Khan

I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations. Sarah Parcak

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I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor. Sarah Parcak

People Reading Talking Always Loved Grandfather Teaching Professor

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature. Scott Turow

Life Attitude Me Lawyer Before Writer Scholar Headed Toward Became Trained Just Literature English Professor

Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars. Sebastian Thrun

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I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg. Shia LaBeouf

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A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. Sofia Coppola

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I've had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I'd been engaged. The wedding fell through. I then discovered I was pregnant and opted to have the child on my own. I was a professor. I was in my mid-30s. I could manage it financially. Stephanie Coontz

Life Mother Single Own Complex Kind Financially About My Own Wedding Could Through Write Had Fell Single Mother Been Years Discovered Child Manage Pregnant Then Engaged Professor

I can honestly say that, growing up, it never crossed my mind that I could ever make anything. I could write articles about things, which is why I wanted to be a professor. I loved watching movies and writing about them and teaching them, but it never crossed my mind that I could make something. Stephanie Savage

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I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to the dorm where I lived looking for people to audition for an August Wilson play, 'Joe Turner's Come And Gone.' I gave it a shot, got one of the lead roles in the play. Sterling K. Brown

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When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was. Steve Martin

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