Top 1200 Stanford University Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.

We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.

No one in my family was creative. One of my sisters went to a university, and pretty much, most of my siblings live a basic and dull lifestyle.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out of control. I was totally indifferent. She came down, saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners, they're not guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." And I ended the study the next day. The good news is I married her the next year.

One of my favorite things on YouTube is the famous 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at Cambridge University.

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.

I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

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

I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.

In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

I was 21 years old when I first signed with WWE. I finished my university degree and came straight to America.

The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

I had a very embarrassing time acting extremely badly at university, which is when directing suddenly became so attractive.

I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.

The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

My mum is a social worker and my dad's a roofer. My brother Nicky and I were the first two in my family to go to university.

When people ask if Marquette University is in Michigan, and I tell them my alma mater is in Milwaukee, they sometimes say, 'What's the difference?'

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.

I'm going to prove I belong. There's a lot of skepticism about the type of player I am, where I come from, the University of Wyoming, obviously.

At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

My wife, Ashley, is a West Texan, a graduate of Abilene Cooper Public High School and the University of Texas.

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

The World University Games Gold medal was a great confidence booster for me. It highlighted my talents, my performance and dedication.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.

What is John Arriaga's circle of competence? Is it real estate? No! Is it U.S. real estate? No! Is it California real estate? No! Northern California real estate? No! Only real estate around Stanford. His circle of competence is this small.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.