Graduate Students Quotes - Page 2

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Change, Positive

Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

George W. Bush

Funny, Graduation, Humor

"Bad results?" by Nikki Sheehan, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2001.

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

Life, Graduation, Confidence

Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tom Brokaw

Motivational, Graduation, Education

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Life, Graduation, Wise

"Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Sidney Altman

Opportunity, Waiting, Months

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If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Connie Sellecca

Happiness, Success, Happy

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When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

Thomas J. Sargent

Estimating, Agendas, Lag

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When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

Francis Crick

Believe, Science, Discovery

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There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students were even better. In the old days, if you offered a graduate student a thiamine-deficient diet, he gladly went on it, for that was the only way he could eat. Science is getting to be more and more difficult.

George Wald

Regret, Science, Animal

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Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

New Scientist, Vol. 21, No. 374, January 16, 1964.

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Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

Jack Horner

Jurassic Park, Dinosaurs, Parks

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A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm

John Naughton

Loyalty, Powerful, Intelligent

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An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

Christopher Hitchens

Thinking, Class, Oxford

Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.216, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

Herman Cain

Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

Carol Gilligan

Daughter, Roles, Half

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As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Steven Pinker

Children, Long, Dots

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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

John Forbes Nash

Choices, Competition, Fellowship

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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

Camille Paglia

Reality, College, Style

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.120, Vintage

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