Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Simon Newcomb

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

Spencer Johnson

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

Tig Notaro

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

Thomas Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

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.

Susan Jeffers

You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.

T. S. Eliot

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Susan Sontag

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

Tony Snow

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

Sugar Ray Leonard

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Steve Jobs

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Ruth Ann Minner

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Ruby Wax

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

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.

Wynton Marsalis

It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

William O. Douglas

The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.