Graduate School Quotes - Page 4

• I moved straight from kindergarten ,at age 4, to graduate school to my position at Lake Forest ,at age 26. No break. No bumming around Europe. No peace corps. No corporate cubicle job. No stint as a Starbucks barrista.

  Davis Schneiderman

  School, Age, Graduates

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school. Both sets of my grandparents grew up in rural Mississippi and brought a lot of agrarian knowledge to Memphis, which is an urban center in the South. Both sets had amazing backyard gardens. My paternal grandfather, practically every inch of available space was green.

  Bryant Terry

  Moving, School, College

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• Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

  Michael Eisner

  Couple, School, Years

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• Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

  Tom Freston

  School, Graduates

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• Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

  Michael Arndt

  School, Graduates, Pixar

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• Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Teacher, Encouragement, School

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• It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

  Andrew Greeley

  Art, School, Catholic

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• When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

  Andy Rooney

  Education, School, Things In Life

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• Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

  Robert Fulghum

  Wisdom, School, Sunday

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Father, Nice, School

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• Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

  Al Gore

  Summer, School, Years

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• Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

  Clark Terry

  Music, School, College

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• What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, School

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Girl, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, School

  "James Patterson interview with longtime editor Michael Pietsch". Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.usatoday.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

  Rachel Nichols

  School, Mean, Graduates

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• The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

  Mary Karr

  Smart, School, Students

  "Mary Karr Speaks To HuffPost Books About Her New Memoir 'Lit'", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, School, Important

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• Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

  Peter Guber

  Brother, School, Marine

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• I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

  Lev Grossman

  School, College, Years

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• For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Country, Writing, School

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• There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only two things you could do: conceptual analysis or empirical investigation. Any kind of political theory or even ethical theory was nonsense.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, School, Two

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

  Tama Janowitz

  Country, Children, Bad Day

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• All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

  Donna Leon

  School, Murder Mysteries, Television

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• I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, Character, Gossip

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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