Stanford Quotes - Page 2

• In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

  Daphne Koller

  Motivation, Inspiration, Questions And Answers

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• I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Adults, Different, Shy

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• Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

  Barack Obama

  People, Riding, Faces

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• I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Michigan, Firsts, Bones

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• You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

  John Hickenlooper

  Powerful, People, Colorado

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• If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

  Victor Koo

  Gone, Ifs

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• In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

  Kevin Kelly

  School, Self, Entrepreneur

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• We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Thinking, Evil, People

  "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.

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• I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Class, Ideas

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

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• We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. Infact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is in this case is the evil place won over the good people.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Thinking, People, Evil

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• I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

  Paul Engle

  Illinois, Yale, Library

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• The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Kids, College, Knowing

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• When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.

  Rafe Esquith

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

  Joan Baez

  Dad, Father, Firsts

  "Joan Baez on the new protest era: The whole world's watching". Chicago Tribune Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Teaching, Knowing, Giving

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

  Scott Turow

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

  Ice T

  Names, Might, Harvard

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• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

  Gale Norton

  Air, Years, Pollution Control

  Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Two, Wisconsin, Chemistry

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• The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

  Evelyn Nesbit

  White, Tragedy, Died

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• Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool for the player looking to improve both their shot and their percentage. I would recommend it to anyone looking for that extra edge.

  Tara VanDerveer

  Player, Training, Tools

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• Years ago, when I was (at Stanford), you had maybe one or two teams -- at one time I was part of one of those teams -- you didn't have to worry about, ... Now it's not that way in the conference. A lot of the teams that were once at the bottom kind of have their games together and are making their way to the top.

  Tyrone Willingham

  Team, Years, Games

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• When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Discovery, Trying, Research

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• My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Jobs, Ambition, Different

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• Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Hard Work, Parent

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