Top 218 Stanford Quotes & Sayings

I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.

I earned a Master's degree in Epidemiology from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2009.

Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.

I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.

Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the 'Catholic Herald.'

Stanford did a lot for me, and I've always felt indebted. It was a lenient and productive environment.

I noticed when I was at Stanford, there was a class called the persuasive technology design class, and it was a whole lab at Stanford that teaches students how to apply persuasive psychology principles into technology to persuade people to use products in a certain way.

When I left Stockton and went to Stanford, I felt I hit the lotto. I did not think I was coming back.

I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

I'm a huge fan of San Francisco. And I was out here for a couple years in the mid-'90s when I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

When I started I had no knowledge of films whatsoever. I was an engineering major at Stanford. And I found out as a senior that they had two film critics on the Stanford Daily, and they got free passes to all the theaters in Palo Alto. So I thought, I'll do that, and I became a film critic. And then I became interested in films. But I had no time to study anything in that area because I was a senior, just finishing up as engineering.

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

If you go to Wall Street, there is someone from Harvard, Stanford, etc, who relate to each other by the batch they studied in, the dorm they lived in, and so on.

Hoover himself had risen from the most modest means of any president since Abraham Lincoln. Orphaned as a small boy, he worked his way through Stanford's 'pioneer' class - the first freshmen at Stanford. He started his mining career in hard labor.

As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that.

I could have played water polo in high school instead of football. I would have gone to Stanford like my other buddies from Irvine who played water polo and ended up going to Stanford, you know.

I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

I think that the culture at Stanford really shapes how you view the world, and you get a lot more out of an entrepreneurial mindset.

I went to classes on writing for film and theatre as well as short stories at Stanford.

I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.

When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

I get to actually say I am a Stanford man. There's no if, ands, or buts about it.

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

I was lucky enough at Stanford to have Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator for a year, and then Jason Tarver.

In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.

I loved Stanford and symbolic systems. For me, I came to Stanford assuming I would be a doctor and got really deep into chemistry and biology, but I noticed everyone who was on the same track as me was taking the exact same classes. I wanted to do something more unique.

They were some of the best years of my life, and I'm so thankful I was able to go to Stanford.

I actually didn't know anything about Stanford. It was the only school I really did a lot of research on.

I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.

I went to Stanford.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

I chose Stanford for Stanford and not for the coach. I was going to Stanford regardless.

The college kids should think hard about what they're doing. If you have a great idea for a company, there's no right time to start it, and it's often better to start it sooner rather than later. I went to Stanford undergrad and Stanford Law School, and if I had to do it over again, I might still do those things, but I wish I had asked the type of questions like, why I was doing it, was it just for the status and prestige, or was it because I was really interested in the substance of it.

I've had a lot of coaches at my high school and at Stanford and in the NBA who helped me. Bill Cartwright comes to mind.

Being at Stanford really opens your eyes to the world that's out there.

I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'.