Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Flatley

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Michael Bloomberg

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

Mary Engelbreit

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

Lisa Kudrow

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

Frederick Reines

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

George Foreman

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Nora Ephron

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

Neil Gaiman

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Neil Gaiman

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

Millard Fuller

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Eric Idle

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

Peter Dinklage

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Maureen Forrester

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Kevin Spacey

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Gwen Davis

After graduation I want to be a dentist.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Steve Jobs

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Peter Farrelly

Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

Peter Gallagher

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Peter Jurasik

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

Plato

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Shannon Lucid

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

Leonard Orr

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

Leonard Nimoy

What mark will I leave behind? How will anyone know I have been here? What sign will tell the future traveler I existed? 'I am here! Today... I exist'. I believe the deepest impression is made in those moments when I can say 'I care, I love'.

Lee Pace

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

Marc Garneau

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

Sheryl Sandberg

I've seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that's why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am not sure I belong there - and yes, this still happens to me. And when I'm not sure anyone wants my opinion, I take a deep breath and speak up anyway.

Tig Notaro

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

Tom Brokaw

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tobias Wolff

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Tim Duncan

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

Tony Hillerman

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Spencer Johnson

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.