Graduates Quotes - Page 31

• though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

  Edith Hamilton

  Life Changing, Book, Lessons

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

  Nouriel Roubini

  School, Thinking, Israel

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• When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  School, Fifty, Quitting

  "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

  Ryan Lewis

  Thinking, Interesting, Economy

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• Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Senior, Mistake, School

  "Financial Education: The Solution for the Future of Our Economy?" by Alexa Von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Depth, Tests, Fellowship

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• Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Law, Bars

  Woodrow Wilson (1969). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

  Robert Plant

  Voice, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Heaven, Democracy, Patents

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• Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life Is, Distinction, University

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

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• If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores ' to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day ' the Constitution wouldn't stop them. What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race.

  Ann Coulter

  Player, College, Race

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• Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, School

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.

  Laurent A. Daloz

  Mean, Artist, Aim Of Education

  Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.304, John Wiley & Sons

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• Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

  Irwin Winkler

  Mail, Rooms, Morris

  "Irwin Winkler: A Film Producer's Producer". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 8, 2007.

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• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Eight, Engineering

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• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

  Janet Napolitano

  School, Years, Today

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Graduation, Education

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• I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Horse, School, Choices

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• But just because a person goes to Harvard doesn't mean he's balanced when he graduates, and just because a dog knows how to obey doesn't mean he's balanced, either.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Mean, Harvard

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2006). “Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems”, p.225, Crown Archetype

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• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

  Arne Duncan

  Art, Believe, Carpe Diem

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• Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, School, Adversity

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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