Graduates Quotes - Page 14

• Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character".

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• 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

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• Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

  Cliff Stearns

  Home, College, Income

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• 42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Book, College

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• 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

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• The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility.

  DeLoss Dodds

  Sports, Real, Spring

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• My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

  Jay Roach

  Track, Guy, Criticism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Toby Keith, when you wake up tomorrow there's still going to be liberals in the world, mexicans and blacks, Muslims and Jews and high school graduates...and everyone else who hates your music.

  Maureen McCormick

  Hate, School, Wake Up

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• As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.

  Norman Lamm

  Strong, Israel, Average

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• What an invaluable handbook! Lori A. May has done her research, knows her stuff, and, whats best, lets the programs speak for themselves through her extensive interviews. Theres a chorus of quotes from faculty, students, and graduates in The Low-Residency MFA Handbook. Anyone making the decision to apply for an MFA should consult this wise guide. Mays clarity and authority make it a gold standard.

  Molly Peacock

  Wise, Decision, Gold

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• 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

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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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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Country, Teenager

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone's reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth's simple steps for 'getting everyone to follow your lead.'

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Simple, Leader, Benefits

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• Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

  Charles Darwin

  Attention, Astonishment, Surprise

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.278

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• He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

  Thucydides

  School, Succeed

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• Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Magic, Cards, Ontology

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• I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Education, Years, Two

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

  John Maeda

  Design, Students, Should

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• You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Friendship, Teaching, Mean

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• I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

  Lawrence Wright

  Cards, Students, Notes

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• I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.

  Nicki Minaj

  Style, Honor, Bragging

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• It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

  Christopher Bond

  Competition, Needs, Economy

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• You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

  Julian Bond

  College, Generations, Six

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• It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

  Matt Lucas

  Pieces, Parks, Deer

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