Top 1200 Stanford University Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

I will always support St. John's University in keeping our basketball tradition alive!

I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Though I graduated from Vanderbilt, I was born into a family of crazed University of Oklahoma football fans and became one.

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Growing up, I was restricted at home from playing video games until I reached university.

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off.

It is extremely rewarding for me to be recognised by the University of Aberdeen. This is where I grew up and nurtured my dreams.

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.

I tried to go to university, and I stayed there for one year, but I didn't do much there because I already had a contract with Benfica.

I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

The first game I played against the University of Miami, I was very nervous - eyes wide open.

I wish I'd gone to university. I had the opportunity to go to Oxford but by then I'd already started as a comedian.

My sister and I graduated from Arizona State University where she was president and I was secretary of the College Republicans.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

I want the University of Florida to be successful. I'm always going to be a Gator, unless I'm on the other sideline.

I studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology, which was amazing. I can't speak highly enough of that school.

We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. Infact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is in this case is the evil place won over the good people.

I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.