Graduate Students Quotes - Page 4

• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  182 Copy quote

• 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

  Book, Answers, Measurement

  8 Copy quote

• It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

  Ruth Simmons

  Education, Pain, Priorities

  4 Copy quote

• When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.

  Mervyn King

  Learning, Years, Civilization

  7 Copy quote

• I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  Past, Perspective, Historical

  John Lewis Gaddis (2004). “The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’ With sustainable business, individuals build solutions within the current system… Sustainable business asks, ‘How would nature do this?’

  Eban Goodstein

  College, Two, World

  4 Copy quote

• I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Writing, Names, Errors

  17 Copy quote

• Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Clever, Book, Tough Questions

  "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

  Leslie Jamison

  Teacher, Lucky, Way

  4 Copy quote

• I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

  Erica Jong

  People, Want, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.

  Daniel Fried

  Mean, Luxury, Work Out

  Source: www.politico.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

  270 Copy quote

  Show source

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

  177 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

  810 Copy quote

  Show source

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  70 Copy quote

• When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

  M. H. Abrams

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  7 Copy quote

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Meaningful, Good Life, Live Life

  "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Attitude, Different, Students

  7 Copy quote

• Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

  Antony Hewish

  Team, Sky, Paper

  7 Copy quote

• Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

  Sidney Altman

  Summer, Eight, Colorado

  68 Copy quote

• The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

  Robertson Davies

  Students, Graduates, Champagne

  Robertson Davies (1983). “High spirits”, Viking Adult

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise no one could have deflected me from my path. ... The Chairman of the Physics Department, looking at this record, could only say 'That A- confirms that women do not do well at laboratory work'. But I was no longer a stubborn, determined child, but rather a stubborn, determined graduate student. The hard work and subtle discrimination were of no moment.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Mother, Children, Memories

  11 Copy quote

• As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Today, Students, Graduates

  "Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Validation of Continental Drift", pp. 160-161, 1977.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Government, Law, Political

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source