Famous Quotes & Sayings

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

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.

Ruben Hinojosa

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

Ruben Hinojosa

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

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.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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

Will McDonough

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

Wayne Dyer

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

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.

Wally Amos

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

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Winston Churchill

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

Tony Snow

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

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.

Chris Thompson

I just stay out of trouble to stay out of trouble. I do it so I can graduate, so I can get out of here.

In general, many people spend more time planning a graduation day or wedding day than planning their retirement. And that's only one day. People should spend time planning for their retirement.

Joseph Addison

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

John Adams

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences...

Frederick Reines

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

George Foreman

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Eric Idle

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

Orrin Hatch

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Orrin Hatch

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Ellen DeGeneres

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

Ellen DeGeneres

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

Ellen DeGeneres

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

Take the initiative and lead the way, You can make the difference.