"To thine own self be true," she lectured.
Although Barrow's decision to proceed geometrically prevented him from taking the final step to a true calculus, his lectures influenced both Newton and Leibniz.
This is a volume of rehashed lectures – true – but so were two of the 19th century's most influential books on the same theme – Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Representative Men.
I'm not sure that's true for those lectures on Homer, though.
Varda has a way of abruptly ending her movies, as if to eliminate any possibility of sentimental closure, and the same was true of her lecture.
Byatt's Oxford lecture, "True Stories and the Facts in Fiction," was delivered shortly after she completed her two dense and delicious novellas, "The Conjugial Angel" and "Morpho Eugenia" (published together, as "Angels and Insects," in 1992), and tells us a good deal about her method of courting inspiration.
(Unlike others who have delivered rousing Nobel lectures, Coetzee, true to form, gave an elliptical disquisition on decoy ducks in Daniel Defoe).
While it is undoubtedly true that in subsequent lectures Foucault laid great emphasis on power-as-government, or on a governmental interpretation of power, it is wrong to assume that Foucault passed from power-as-discipline to power-as-government, without seriously entertaining an analytic framework of power-as-war.
It's true he likes to write lectures and speeches, but they're more engaging than some of Tolstoy's, who nearly succeeded in stomping my clinging fingers off of "Anna Karenina" with his ruminations on Russian agriculture circa 1870.
When the prettiest girl on the island impulsively sheds her clothing and offers herself to John, he averts his eyes and solemnly lectures her about true love and saving herself for one man, then leads her to the beach to pray.
