Top 208 Tenure Quotes & Sayings

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

I know a Bollywood actress' tenure is limited.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

The Knesset was right to limit the president's tenure to seven years.

My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word dinosaur. You're not supposed to be getting tenure. You're supposed to be figuring out how you can teach more students at a better price and more effectively. That's your job.

I started in the restaurant industry when I was 22, so I've had quite a long tenure, if you will.

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Obama's tenure had more dirty linen then Charlie Sheen's hamper.

The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.

It's hard to overstate the lasting harm Mr. Tillerson's tenure will do to America's diplomacy.

At the end of the day, leaving WrestleMania, having my hand raised, beating Brock Lesnar... I'd say it was a pretty successful tenure.

My tenure as mayor of Braddock started with a community that was embroiled in mass distrust between residents and the police force.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

Not once during Obama's tenure did the country achieve an annual 3 percent rate of economic growth.

I really used my own imagination a lot and made a number of suggestions during my tenure on 'Star Trek.'

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

I've gotta believe that my managing tenure has come to an end here.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount of knowledge; you can expect that there is this common background.

I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That's why I got turned on to charter schools. It's a business model. Every employee and every teacher will be monitored by performance.

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.

When I began my tenure as surgeon general, I did not intend to focus on emotional well-being.

We've all evolved as players throughout our tenure in the league.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.

In five years of my previous tenure, the treasury was never shut for one day.

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

I made $400.00 a week for my tenure at GLOW. I was there for about nine months.

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.

In 2000 I became captain and stayed till 2005, and this was a very successful time in Indian cricket, so it was a satisfying tenure for me.

I think that if your tenure case depends on your proving what you thought was a mathematical theorem and the proposed theorem turns out to be false just before your tenure decision, and you want to get tenure very badly, there is a sense in which it's perfectly understandable and reasonable of you to wish the proposed theorem were true and provable, even if it's logically impossible for it to be.

In the current environment, attributing low student performance to teacher tenure is one of the great unproven causal links out there. The relationship just hasn't been examined very carefully, but we should all recognize that in higher education the strongest institutions generally have the most robust tenure systems, and in elementary and secondary, the states with the strongest teacher unions (and tenure systems) tend to have the highest student performance.

I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

My tenure has been abnormally long for the average Disney kid - most only last three or four years.

Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

At the end of the day, when you are in the front office, your tenure is dictated by the people surrounding you.

I have not broken any promises, but I have full freedom to say or write about what others have said to me during my tenure in the PMO.

You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists - because they represent the people, of course (scoff). Federal judges have tenure as well - no federal judge has ever successfully been removed. And then there's the college professors. Me. How do you like that?

Amanda is now a tenure-track professor at Yale.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.