Harvard Quotes - Page 2

• When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

  Ann Beattie

  Photography, Teaching, Class

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• When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Made, Made It

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• Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

  Edgar Fiedler

  Business, Insperational, Hands

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• I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Successful, Credit

  To columnist Hugh Sidey. Quoted in Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

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• If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

  Anna Quindlen

  New York, Book, People

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• My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

  Marianne Moore

  Father, Flower, Glasses

  "Silence" l. 1 (1935)

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• People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

  Timothy Leary

  Teaching, School, Sunday

  "LSD: Methods of Control". 1966.

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• As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

  Andrew Weil

  Psychologist, Skinner, 1960s

  "Pressing The Bar" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

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• I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

  Felix Frankfurter

  School, Law, Titles

  "Of Law and Life & Other Things That Matter: Papers and Addresses of Felix Frankfurter, 1956-1963". Book edited by Philip B Kurland, February 5, 1965.

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• You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  Men, Personality, Gone

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, People, Luck

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

  Pierre Trudeau

  World, Window, Extraordinary

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

  Jimmy Wales

  Smart, School, Kids

  "Q&A" with Jimmy Wales, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

  Edwin Land

  School, Excess, Teach

  Edwin Land's comment after a 1977 Polaroid shareholder's meeting as quoted in Danny Miller "The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall; New Lessons in the Dynamics of Corporate Success, Decline, and Renewal"(p. 126), 1990.

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• I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Education, Boston, Names

  Rumbles Left and Right (1963)

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• The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college. He instilled in me a commitment to service, saying that it's not enough to believe in service, or support those who serve - you ought to find a way yourself to serve. When I looked at different options after college, nobody inspired me more than the 18- and 19-year-olds who serve on the front lines of our nation's military. Serving with them in the Marines as we together served our country was the greatest honor of my life to date.

  Seth Moulton

  Country, Military, Believe

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Boston, People

  "Goldstein: How Universities Killed Free Speech" by Lorrie Goldstein, torontosun.com. November 22, 2017.

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• A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  College, Whales, Yale

  Moby Dick ch. 24 (1851)

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• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

  Ulrich Beck

  Believe, Hysteria, Risk

  "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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• If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

  Charles Morgan

  School, Years, Law

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• In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Color, People, Great Men

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• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

  Beatrice Wood

  Mind, Rich, Poet

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• I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

  Ajay Naidu

  School

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• As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

  Anita Diament

  Years, Library Research, Doing Me

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• I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.

  Selena Gomez

  Stars, War, Stress

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