Grad Quotes - Page 2

• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

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

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• You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Graduation, Commitment, Two

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

  Jami Attenberg

  Drinking, Book, Writing

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

  George Saunders

  Real, Mean, Accomplishment

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.48, A&C Black

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• And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU will gradually be replaced by LOVE. If you have kids, that will be a huge moment in your process of self-diminishment. You really won't care what happens to YOU, as long as they benefit. That's one reason your parents are so proud and happy today. One of their fondest dreams has come true: you have accomplished something difficult and tangible that has enlarged you as a person and will make your life better, from here on in, forever.

  George Saunders

  Dream, Love You, Kids

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.42, A&C Black

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• Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause us to prioritize our own needs over the needs of others, even though what we really want, in our hearts, is to be less selfish, more aware of what's actually happening in the present moment, more open, and more loving.

  George Saunders

  Selfish, Believe, Heart

  "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". George Saunders' Speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

  Neal Stephenson

  Faculty Members, People, Research

  Neal Stephenson (2009). “Cryptonomicon”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that is, our personal story is the main and most interesting story, the only story, really); (2) we're separate from the universe (there's US and then, out there, all that other junk - dogs and swing-sets, and the State of Nebraska and low-hanging clouds and, you know, other people), and (3) we're permanent (death is real, o.k., sure - for you, but not for me).

  George Saunders

  Dog, Real, Clouds

  "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

  Gene Weingarten

  School, Careers, Decision

  "Tuesdays with Moron: Chatological Humor update". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 10, 2015.

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• My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

  Lena Waithe

  Character, Interesting, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• And then, one acting class turned into two, turned into four, and then turned into, "I love this. I could do this for the rest of my life. But, I don't have a background in acting. I never acted in college, or did anything like that. How can I go about doing this?" That meant going to grad school and getting some training, and I did. I literally walked down the path. It was real fortuitous for me to walk by that school, that one morning.

  Tim Kang

  Morning, Real, School

  Source: collider.com

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• The most fun thing about doing the show is that, as a nerd, the fun has been in learning and having it be like a grad school for me, every day. Every moment is a new experience. Every conversation is a new gain.

  Steven Yeun

  Fun, School, New Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.

  N.D. Wilson

  Dream, Honesty, Reading

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• I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, Exercise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to be a part of the movie business and make movies. That's why I went to AFI grad school for filmmaking.

  Jeff Vespa

  School, Inspired, Filmmaking

  "Discovering Jeff Vespa". Interview with Jena Malone, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 14, 2014.

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• I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

  Carolyn Hax

  Couple, Hate, School

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.

  Saladin Ahmed

  School, Adventure, Years

  Source: fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com

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• Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Years, People

  "Dyson Founder James Dyson On Hiring Inexperience" by Margaret Rhodes, www.fastcompany.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

  Richard Powers

  School, Computer, Grad School

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• There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.

  Bostin Christopher

  Running, Independent, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.

  Brice Marden

  Jobs, New York, Teaching

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• You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.

  Christian Finnegan

  School, Games, Names

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• Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Determination, Hard Work, School

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.

  Elif Batuman

  Communication, Writing, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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