Sidney Altman Quotes

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to be like, and which ones I didn't.

Growing up, I've always kinda been into academics.

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

Teachers are heroes.

I think my parents - my mother in particular - always believed I should go as far as I could with my studies. There was no pressure, but at each step there were people who you admired, and you strived to those levels.

When you have a teacher who is part of a tradition, the other people in that tradition are such stars. You just look at them like pop stars.

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

Growing up, I didn't have any inspirations.

When a kid says 'I'm in astrophysics at school because of your character' that's amazing to me.

I grew up watching the Williams sisters. I did a lot of research on Serena and kind of stole some things from her.

I think about what I grew up seeing, what I didn't see growing up, and what it felt like when I did see someone who I thought that I could relate to, just living their life on screen.

When you're a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school...it inspired me to keep going.

I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.

My mentors were very good.

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

My teacher, Professor Smil Sommarin, was a fine pedagogue, a very generous person, and a great admirer of Kurt Wicksell.

When I was growing up, I drew my favorite basketball players.

Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.

When I was growing up, I was focused on football and school.

I loved school as a kid. I was a bit of a nerd.

The greatest are an inspiration for all the kids who wake up early in the morning. Everyone watches you, is inspired by you and wants to be you. So you influence society. That's what being more than an athlete means. I want more kids to have that opportunity. I want everybody to start with the same chance.

Parents are, of course, most important in shaping their children's lives, but teachers are critically important as well. Who among us doesn't look back on a few great teachers who inspired us, opened up new worlds, and helped make us who we are?