Eric Mazur Quotes
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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I try to win every tournament.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
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Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
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I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.
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I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
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We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.
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Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
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When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.
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I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.
