Lakshmi Pratury Quotes

Why limit yourself to one discipline or field of study?

The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.

I spent my college years studying what I enjoyed semester to semester-a little Spanish literature here, a little psychology there, a little marketing in between.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

I just like to do different parts.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

I've always found diversity more interesting than specialisation. I like mixing it up across years, within days, within weeks - that's what stimulates me, gives me energy.

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which is really sort of the study of the human being.

Every child needs to become literate in one or more languages, and every child should become comfortable in the major scholarly disciplines - historical, scientific, mathematical, and artistic-humanistic thinking. Beyond that, I am not in favour of a uniform system. I think there should be some choices.