Quotes about school
school positive-thinking skills
From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own. Lee Iacocca
school thinking people
I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about. Lee Iacocca
school people taught
I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life. Laurie Anderson
school wire easier
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. Laurie Halse Anderson
school two nuclear
I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown. Laurie Halse Anderson
school thinking long
Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it. Laurie Halse Anderson
school luxury library
School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries. Laurie Halse Anderson
school player college
I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game. Larry Bird
school missing jack-o-lanterns
My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth Thom Yorke
school eye lazy
My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye Thom Yorke
school college years
I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music. Theophilus London
school home people
I had a cup of tea with Michael Howard after my appointment shortly after I became Home Secretary, and without telling tales out of school, shortly after I became Home Secretary, and he said that when people used to ask him whether he enjoyed it he'd reply that "enjoy" wasn't quite the right description. Theresa May
school rhyme
School is cool. Thats why it rhymes Terry Crews
school work-out trying
All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory. Terry Gilliam
school literary-theory facts
I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller. Terry Eagleton
school college tvs
Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast. Terrence J
school eye class
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy. Tennessee Williams
school ideas ascending
Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics. Terence McKenna
school pda alex
NO PDA,school rules. And besides she's my partner dickhead." said Alex. Simone Elkeles
school your-future
Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future. Simone Elkeles
school peers guides
Can I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.? Simone Elkeles
school space eight
I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life. Simon Mawer
school ugly records
At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn. Simon Schama
school years lasts
I came out of film school and went after movies that I thought audiences wanted to see or that the studios wanted, as opposed to the movies that I wanted. Over the last 10 years, I've gravitated more and more toward the films that I grew up loving - classic Spielberg, Lucas, James Cameron and Ridley Scott movies. Simon Kinberg
school kids animal
This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals Rick Riordan
school home fighting
I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school. Rick Riordan
school mythology bus
I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. Rick Riordan
school blow lasts
The last thing I wanted to do was blow up another school. Rick Riordan
school home water
The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools. Richard Branson
school careers places-to-go
Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to go there and invest on this scale - I went there maybe 20 times - it's also been also super-controversial. There's an old school of thought that somebody like me has no place to go there.Because of colonialism and so on. Rem Koolhaas
school thinking air
I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is air conditioned with big machines. Rem Koolhaas
school years understanding
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it. Richard Branson
school entrepreneur waste
If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it. Richard Branson