College Quotes - Page 26

• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Home, Self

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• In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

  Mary Oliver

  Years, Four, Too Much

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• My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

  John Howe

  Art, Real, School

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• So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

  Peter Lynch

  Air, Flying, Dollars

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• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Community, Leader, Training

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

  Jane Haddam

  Teacher, Editors, Magazines

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• I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

  Nigel Rees

  Ethos, Oxford

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• A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Reading, Bed

  Phyllis McGinley (1959). “the Province of the Heart”

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• I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  "Mary-Chapin Carpenter: Country's Unlikely Star" by Eliza Wing, www.rollingstone.com. March 21, 1991.

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• It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

  Polly Adler

  Writing, Degrees, Stories

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.374, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Army, Years, Parent

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• If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Years, Four

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• Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

  Jonathan Raban

  Children, Years, Different

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• I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

  Derek Bok

  Writing, Thinking, Should Have

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• Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

  Derek Bok

  Senior, Thinking, Average

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• Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

  Derek Bok

  Writing, Benefits, Analyzing

  Derek Bok (2009). “Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

  Derek Bok

  Teaching, Support, Doe

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• So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

  James Earl Jones

  Girl, Drama, School

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

  Lou Gerstner

  Children, Parent, Four

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• I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend College - "I just hate to talk to a machine!" They say this as though it is a major philosophical position, as opposed to a description of a minor neurosis. My feeling is, if you have a problem like this, you shouldn't go around trumpeting it; you should stay home and practice talking to a machine you can feel comfortable with, such as your Water Pik, until you are ready to assume your place in modern society.

  Dave Barry

  Hate, Philosophical, Humorous

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• My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry.

  Milton Berle

  Mother, Valentine, Heart

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• Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Teacher, Teaching, Excellent

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• It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

  T. E. Brown

  Always Trying, Wish, Looks

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• It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Beach, Careers, California

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Kids, Kind, These Days

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