I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work. Douglass North American Economist More Douglass North Quotes 1
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. Will McDonough American Writer More Will McDonough Quotes 0
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. Martin Lewis Perl American Physicist More Martin Lewis Perl Quotes 0
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it. Elizabeth Moon American Author More Elizabeth Moon Quotes 0
I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me. William Petersen American Actor More William Petersen Quotes 0
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. Jon Porter American Politician More Jon Porter Quotes 0
My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them. Frank Press American Scientist More Frank Press Quotes 0
Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. Sydney Pollack American Director More Sydney Pollack Quotes 0
Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. Jon Postel American Scientist More Jon Postel Quotes 0
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. Barney Ross American Athlete More Barney Ross Quotes 0
Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school. Evan Sayet American Comedian More Evan Sayet Quotes 0
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing. Bob Schieffer American Journalist More Bob Schieffer Quotes 0
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. James Tobin American Economist More James Tobin Quotes 0
One half who graduate from college never read another book. G. M. Trevelyan English Historian More G. M. Trevelyan Quotes 0
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. George Weinberg American Psychologist More George Weinberg Quotes 0
I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. Harry Shearer American Actor More Harry Shearer Quotes 0
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. Andrew Shue American Actor More Andrew Shue Quotes 0
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here. Ruth J. Simmons American Educator More Ruth J. Simmons Quotes 0
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. Kenneth G. Wilson American Scientist More Kenneth G. Wilson Quotes 0
My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology. Kenneth G. Wilson American Scientist More Kenneth G. Wilson Quotes 0
I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. Tobias Wolff American Writer More Tobias Wolff Quotes 0
Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. Douglas Wilson American Entertainer More Douglas Wilson Quotes 0
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school. Leigh Steinberg American Businessman More Leigh Steinberg Quotes 0
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business. Robert Sternberg American Educator More Robert Sternberg Quotes 0
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. Parker Stevenson American Actor More Parker Stevenson Quotes 0