Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Catherine Bateson

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Thomas Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

Ronnie Lott

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Richard Russo

Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Tony Snow

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Robert Sternberg

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Will McDonough

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

Wendy Wasserstein

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Wayne Dyer

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

William Arthur Ward

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

Stephen Colbert

Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner.

Stephen Colbert

You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back.

Stephen Colbert

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

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.