Quotes of: Good-student Keyword

When the Starbursts cost a cent apiece, the average number of candies per customer was 3.5, but when the price went down to zero, the average went down to 1.1 per customer. The students limited themselves to a large degree when the candy was free. In...

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Hang a German, even if he is a good man.

Russian

The open house makes a good man of the thief.

Spanish

Willing is a good man, but Able is a better one.

Virgin Islander

Even though peak experiences might show us the truth and inform us about why we are training, they are essentially no big deal. If we can't integrate them into the ups and downs of our lives, if we cling to them, they will hinder us. We can trust our...

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, it’s clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young women’s sexuality comes from the mainstream media, which loves to report about how promiscuous girls are, whether they’re acti...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

Why do so many today want to wander off to South Africa or Kenya or India or Russia or Honduras or Costa Rica or Peru to help with justice issues but not spend the same effort in their own neighborhood or community or state? Why do young suburbanites...

Scot McKnight

There's many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.

Chinese

Use your imagination," I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you.

Down and in: Life in the Underground

Student food." His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. "Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta.

Dead Witch Walking

The students whipped their heads back to look at her; a blaspheming teacher was as exciting as a fight.

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

A brick could be given as a graduation gift to a C student. It’s like here, welcome to a life in the construction industry.  

Blanket

I feel like I look at her and get lost in her eyes.

But She Is My Student

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

John Pople

In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the sc...

Kenneth R. Miller

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

Patrick J. Kennedy

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

Brian Sandoval

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile...

James Henry Breasted

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

Jonathan Lethem

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Joe Murray