Grad Quotes - Page 4

• As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

  Thomas Haden Church

  School, Voice, Actors

  Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 15, 2006.

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• We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

  Mitch McConnell

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

  "Mitch McConnell Republican Convention Speech Targets Obama", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

  Mark Udall

  Running, School, People

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• I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.

  Randy Pausch

  Attitude, Men, Wish

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• If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Jobs, Attitude, Educational

  "Will Dropouts Save America?". www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

  David Burge

  School, Eagles, Political

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• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  Dale Archer

  Fall, College, Doors

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• I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

  Taylor Schilling

  Teacher, School, Differences

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• I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on "Community."

  Gillian Jacobs

  School, Community, Gone

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Working With First-Time Filmmakers, Her New Short and the Relationship Between 'Community' and Its Online Following". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2013.

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• There are the relationships you make. All of the friends I made in grad school are the closest ones that I have.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  School, Made, Closest

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.

  Michael J. Massimino

  School, Space, Working Together

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• Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

  Rich Sommer

  New York, School, Night

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• I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

  Dean Karnazes

  Jobs, School, College

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• I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

  Larry Page

  Simple, Algorithms, Research

  Larry Page's plenary lecture at the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, www.youtube.com. February 15-19, 2007.

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• Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.

  Warren Farrell

  Art, Engineering, Law

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.18, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

  Rachel Hoffman

  Jumping, Careers, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Jobs, School, Flying

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• My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.

  Ana Ortiz

  Mother, School, Supportive

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• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  Hank Azaria

  School, College, People

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2011.

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• As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

  Daniel Goleman

  College, Meditation Practice, Class

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• Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

  George Saunders

  Medicine, Confusion, Advice

  George Saunders’ Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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