Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.

Vivek Wadhwa

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

Clay Shirky

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

Vladimir Prelog

The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.

Natasha Trethewey

I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.

Randy Pausch

There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

Joe Glover

We poured a record amount of money into hiring additional faculty, ... The academic infrastructure has been pushed to the limit.

Tim Jackson

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

Chris Crutcher

Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.

Brad Skene

We pride ourselves on being athletic and having a lot of heart and the girls really showed us that today. James Bay is a much bigger team and older and we did a lot of things right.

Jerry Kill

We preferred the original date, but it became an opportunity for us to help out our athletic department and specifically, the basketball team. This is good for everyone.

Van Velde

When a new president takes over, changes in athletic directors aren't uncommon and the same can be said for coaches when there is a change in athletic directors. But when coaches have been successful, it is a stretch.

Robert M. Hutchins

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Jim Fassel

We didn't play real well all season and realistically, we should have beaten them twice. They didn't hammer us. We should have beaten them twice. I think Seattle's a pretty hard-nosed, athletic group of guys that will match up pretty well.

Barry Alvarez

We didn't play particularly well and still had a chance to win both of those games. They're very athletic (teams) and they do have a lot of speed, but we're not a bunch of slugs in this league.

Lisa Rinna

I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.

Bonnie Langford

Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.

Nicole Holofcener

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

Dinaw Mengestu

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

Karl Marlantes

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Ezra Koenig

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

P. J. O'Rourke

The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.

Daniel Goldstein

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

Eileen collins

We reflect on the last shuttle mission , the great ship Columbia and her inspiring crew

Fred Delk

This is a great opportunity for Columbia to show itself off.

John Lindsey

There are doctors and lawyers and professors all over Columbia waiting for opportunities like this to get a spot of heaven, to get away from the rat race.

Bobby Hull

Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.

David Gross

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

Joyce Harris

She must have thrown the eldest in first. He would have fought her,

Simon Brown

The eldest was surprised when he went to comprehensive school and people said his lunch looked healthy and wished their mum could make something similar,

Georg Solti

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.

Suki Waterhouse

I'm the eldest of four - I love my family so much. I'm crazy about them.

Oscar Arias

When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.

Mark Zuckerberg

There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.

Mark Ford

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

William Feather

You can always tell a Harvard man -- but you can't tell him very much.

Laura Bush

The recovery and relocation process will take several years, and the press will likely monitor developments. That means people will be thinking about poverty and these poor victims for a while,'' said Wilson, the Harvard professor.

James Blake

I went to Harvard but that doesn't mean I'm that bright, ... Once in a while I'll slow down but not today.

Allen Sinai

He didn't go to one of the top schools - Harvard or MIT or Stanford or Northwestern. I think that was an advantage. He didn't get brainwashed into one of the doctrines.

Jack Maughan

Harvard studies have proven that wrestlers are the smartest of all athletes, they just hide it. Well Devan isn't hiding it.

Drew Gilpin Faust

One of the major jobs of the Harvard president is to choose the deans. I've had the opportunity to choose a considerable number of deans already, so I've learned a lot in the process in doing it.

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Jamie Dixon

We played well in the first half, and we should have been up by more. Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

Paul Dowe

We played well enough to win. The bounces just didn't go our way.

Willie Randolph

We played well enough to win. I'd rather win, but you can't be disappointed.

Paul Doerrfeld

We played well enough to win, but if we play one of the top teams in the state tonight, we're not even close.

Jose Theodore

We played well defensively and we waited for our chances. That's how we're going to have success and that's the way we have to play at home.

Amy Newman

We played well, but we could have still done better,

Aaron Bender

We played well, but had too many errors. We had a five-out inning in the fifth.

Paul Harvey

Now you know the rest of the story.

Scott Adkins

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

Andrew Klink

We are going to win the rest of our games.

Peter O'Toole

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Ludwig von Mises

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Tassos Papadopoulos

We are satisfied with the terms. The rest is procedural.

Lee Humphrey

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

John Wanamaker

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

John Simon

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.

Pat Paulsen

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

Henry B. Eyring

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Robert Battle

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.