University Quotes - Page 39

• I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college. I did it when I carried my papers. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them, I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. Before long, I probably knew more students than anybody in the university, and they recognized me and considered me their friend.

  Sam Walton

  Leadership, College, Names

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.19, Bantam

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• A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Girl, School, Oxford

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• I have been working with Women's Aid since 2003 when I became the charity's first Ambassador, and am so pleased to be able to be a part of the 'Real Man' campaign against domestic violence. I studied domestic violence at university and feel passionately that we need to raise awareness of violence against women and children and refuse to ignore it. Just by speaking out against domestic violence and being supportive of those directly affected we can all make a positive difference.

  Will Young

  Children, Real, Men

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• Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

  David Brooks

  Character, People, Leave Me Alone

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• Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Math, Errors, America

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.171, Random House

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• I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

  Andrew Motion

  Islands, Firsts, Gone

  "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Art, Moving, Writing

  "I am Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian - the news org that broke the story of NSA surveillance of US citizens - AMAA", rebrn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other groups. This constant, often legitimate criticism of Israel for every one of its deviations, when coupled with the absence of legitimate criticism of others, creates the impression currently prevalent on university campuses and in the press that Israel is among the worst human rights violators in the world....it is not true, but if it is repeated often enough, it takes on a reality of its own.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Reality, Rights

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• It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Godly, Men

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• The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in popular books…the open hostility toward Christianity and the revival of anti-Semitism. The fight is on for the hearts and minds of our children in ours homes, our schools, our universities, and our society.

  John Hagee

  Children, Book, Home

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• In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Firsts, Lawyer, Prison

  "Iran Awakening - An Interview With Shirin Ebadi". Interview with Brian Shott, news.newamericamedia.org. May 20, 2006.

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• I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

  Gordon Brown

  Math, Thinking, Years

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• In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having looked after someone who was old, ill, or lonely; or without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Baby, Motivation, School

  "The Ecology of Human Development".

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• If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Diversity, United States, Court

  "Is affirmative action necessary?", www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.

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• The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

  Seth Low

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Cities

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• At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

  Adam Schiff

  Uc Berkeley, Texas, Ucla

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• I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Brother, Gone, Guidance

  "Joseph E. Stiglitz - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 2001") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 2002.

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• The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education, Humanity, Mastery

  "Biographical" by Joseph Stiglitz for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

  Constance Baker Motley

  College, Southern, Black

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• Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

  Constance Baker Motley

  White, Risk, Mississippi

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• I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, World, American Universities

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• So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

  Daniel Nathans

  School, Choices, Lucky

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• The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Meaningful, Military, Believe

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• Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

  Robert B. Parker

  Strong, Teaching

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• Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  Past, Innovation, Needs

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