Albert Einstein Quotes

I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

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• What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Care

• But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Music
  • Words
  • Relationship

• After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Idea
  • Creatures
  • Poems

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Tears
  • Satisfy
  • Meal

• If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Time
  • House
  • You

• As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • Children
  • Hope

• The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Time
  • Pressure
  • Hitting

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Great
  • Age

• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Why
  • Everything
  • Class

• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Past
  • Education

• I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Life
  • Done
  • Hope

• It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Life
  • Me
  • Sense

• My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Sports

• I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Career
  • Very
  • Been

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Practice
  • Learn
  • Photograph

• I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible.

  

  Andreas Vesalius
  • Students
  • Possible
  • Strive

• This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Learn
  • Circumstances
  • Students