Top 1200 University Degrees Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.

I'm so happy to be here and I want to bring championship football back to the University of Northern Colorado.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

I was a freelancer at CNN during the second semester of my senior year at George Washington University.

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.

I thought my freshman year at the University of Miami, I was balling, I was looking forward to the NFL.

My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

There are varying degrees of shade. There is funny shade, warning shade, tea shade, and mean girl shade.

There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

I shrunk my favourite jeans in my first week of university. I'd never done a wash before.

The Khelo India University Games is a great way to unearth talent in this country.

I made loads of English and Irish friends at university and all they wanted to do was have a good time.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

I had to do four years of undergraduate. I went to Thomas Edison State University in Trenton.

Our forefathers increased and decreased the influx of peoples because America was building a melting pot and because certain ethnicities often brought with them certain securities and degrees of productivity.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.

In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

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

Any time there was a break from university I'd be doing some kind of outdoor job.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.

The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

Our heirs, whatever or whoever they may be, will explore space and time to degrees we cannot currently fathom. They will create new melodies in the music of time. There are infinite harmonies to be explored.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

The only reason I wound up in Nashville and went to Belmont University is because that's where I needed to be.

We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.

I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.

Deloitte University is really about leadership development. Our people love it!

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

School is temporary. Education is not. If you want to prosper in life: find something that fascinates you and jump all over it. Don't wait for someone to teach you; your enthusiasm will attract teachers to you. Don't worry about diplomas or degrees; just get so good that no one can ignore you.

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

Just because you're in college, or a university student, that does not mean you're the only thing you are.

We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again.

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

We must contemplate what the meaning of being "educated" is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.