Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Josie Bissett

Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

Joss Whedon

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Joss Whedon

Don't just be yourself. Be all of yourself. Don't just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not follow where the path may lead.

Laurie Anderson

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Terry Teachout

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

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.

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.

Richard P. Feynman

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Wally Amos

Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.

Winston Churchill

Never give in, never give in, never give in.

Winston Churchill

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Woody Hayes

You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

Zora Neale Hurston

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

William H. McRaven

If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. . . . And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

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.