Graduation Quotes - Page 12

• It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

  Susan Sontag

  Funny Graduation, Hard

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• People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the “lucky breaks” theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck... The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.

  Steve Blank

  Running, Careers, People

  Steve Blank's Commencement Address at Philadelphia University in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

  Dick Costolo

  Impact, Plans

  Dick Costolo's Commencement Address at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, www.c-span.org. May 4, 2013.

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• If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

  Jennifer Lee

  Thinking, Self, Creating

  "Super Inspiring Graduation Advice From Frozen Director, Jennifer Lee" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2014.

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• The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Education, Teacher, Money

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.71, First Avenue Editions

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• There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Carpe Diem, Clouds

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• Believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there, that you will have an impact, as a result of what you do. And you don't need to know now what that would be or how will it happen because no one ever does.

  Dick Costolo

  Inspirational, Believe, Impact

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• Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

  Robert Breault

  Motivation, Inspiration, Limits

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• There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

  Dick Costolo

  Live Your Life, Scripts

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• As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

  Alan Alda

  Becoming, Speed

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• Curiosity is the key to creativity.

  Akio Morita

  Creativity, Keys, Curiosity

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• I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Inspirational, Funny, School

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• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  Ed O'Neill

  Inspirational, Funny, Girl

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• Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

  Alexis Herman

  Inspirational, Funny, College

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• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

  Martha Reeves

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

  Tim Cook

  Passion, Decision, Intuition

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• When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.

  Dick Costolo

  Age, Pants, Internet

  Dick Costolo's Commencement Address at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, www.c-span.org. May 4, 2013.

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• You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

  Neil Simon

  School, People, Matter

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• The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

  Donald Barthelme

  Inspiring, Educational, College

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• Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

  Douglas Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Years

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• Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

  Jon Secada

  Inspirational, Funny, Opportunity

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• Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

  Margaret Cho

  Growing Up, Trying, Adults

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• I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

  Lisa Fernandez

  Stronger, Weakness

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• We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

  Ernest Holmes

  Choices, Moments, Individual

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.100, Penguin

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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

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