Graduate Quotations | Page 4

I've written well over 400 poems. When I was a graduate student, I was published, but once I got away from Lamar, I continued to write poetry but I just quit submitting it.

Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

It's very expensive to change majors. It adds one year and $35,000 to $40,000. Get your children to graduate in four years.

I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a career shift. I went to graduate school in computer science, and I began developing educational technologies - in particular, technologies to engage children in creative learning experiences.

They are missing a component that is very important and should be one of the skill sets for the 21st century that every kid has when they graduate from high school.

They assume if they did not graduate in four years in our district these kids are dropouts. Some of these kids don't finish with us, some go on to continuation school, some go to Mexico. The state wants accountability but does not know how to get it.

They are unselfish. They are good kids. They'll graduate from here. They're solid citizens, and you can't ask for much more.

There's that concern that when they enter the field, they're not going to have the skills a graduate five to 10 years ago had.

The revamp is in response to graduate schools' desires for additional information on students' ability in verbal reasoning and quantitative. It's also very much security, and to ensure that the scores we report are valid.

These people are incorrigible. And since none of them could graduate anyway, you are all expurgated. You are dismissed! You are out of here forever! I wish you well.

Once again the issue of overwhelming importance is funding public education - kindergarten through graduate school.

On campuses, we should have students that graduate that are comfortable working with people different from themselves, who are comfortable in an international kind of arena. That's 21st-century America.

Nothing would make me happier than sitting in the bleachers at Fitch watching Jesse graduate some day. That would truly be the moment of a lifetime.

Not many people have the opportunity to get the experience of working in a live newscast before they graduate from college and go looking for a job, and we have that opportunity at UNO.

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.

I'm definitely happy to be here. My goal at the beginning of the season was to finish in the Top 20 and graduate to the PGA Tour. Now that I am here a little earlier than I expected, I've just thought about trying to keep that same frame of mind and just continue to do what I've done the last two-and-a-half months.

I'm definitely happy to be here, ... My goal at the beginning of the season was to finish in the Top 20 and graduate to the PGA Tour. Now that I am here a little earlier than I expected, I've just thought about trying to keep that same frame of mind and just continue to do what I've done the last two-and-a-half months.

In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.

I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great acting program. I graduated in '95.

I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.

In 1992, the Coterie formed a partnership with the graduate acting program at UMKC to have the third year graduating class make their Coterie debut each January-February. Because the program emphasizes the acting of classical material, the Coterie is able to produce plays that utilize the students' skills.

I'm not talking about Hitler's boot camp for kids or something. But they do need to learn to work, ... Graduate from high school with something more than the ability to open a bag of Doritos and play Nintendo. That's a bad plan. Work creates money. I meet 54-year-olds that haven't got that one down.

I'm convinced you can get great quality of education at a huge variety of schools. And that's coming from someone who is a graduate of Harvard.

I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

If you don't embrace the consensus, your career stops in its tracks. I had a woman call me from the literature department at Harvard. She said no one can speak out because if you do, you don't get the courses you want, the hours you want, you don't get graduate assistants. It's pathetic. It's authoritarian, a regime of terror. Anyone opposed has either left the university or is totally underground.

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

I recommended Bill to Bo as a graduate assistant. Before Bo could make a decision, Bill went to Illinois, and his career took off.

I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.

In this global society, businesses are looking for students and graduate students who have had some international experience.

I promised my mom I'd graduate on time.

In today's world, we are all neighbors. The graduate classes of the new century will have to compete in the global marketplace, one that is not only large, but also crowded.

If you're taking fewer semester credit hours than would allow you to graduate on time, in other words if you're taking 12, 13 or 14 hours there's going to be a penalty, you're going to have to pay more.

If you make it difficult for foreign students to come here or work here, you will have a dramatic influence on education in the United States and the quality of industry. The U.S. is becoming less attractive for graduate students.

I gave this test to the graduate of a fairly prestigious university. The question was this: Which is the largest oil-producing nation in the Middle East? Her answer was Nicaragua. That's not the kind of person we need.

I never thought I would graduate from college. I want to play ball until I can't play anymore, but it's sure a good feeling knowing I'll be able to do something with my degree. I'm thinking about being a coach.

I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.

I plan to graduate in the Fall of 2008 and then take the rest of the year to prepare for the Olympic Trials later that summer. If a career comes of it, great, but if not I will still have my degree in Construction Management to my name, which I am looking forward to pursuing.

He's scheduled to have a quick doctor visit to get up-to-date with his inner ear issue. He's been doing his long toss, probably will start to graduate onto the mound and just go day-by-day on the basis of how he feels.

He's right up there with (1997 graduate and a member of the WPIAL 2,000-point club) Mike Colbert." ()

I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.

Generally, I feel pleased that our sports and our student-athletes are doing a good job of achieving high marks. Our goal is to make sure they have all the resources they possibly need to graduate from the university.

If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.

If everything works out, I want to graduate in three years, ... Then in the fourth year, I'll go to graduate school.

I can't believe he did that. At least wait until you graduate or something.

He's meeting one-on-one with the coach, so he's still learning the defense. I'd rather have him graduate and miss practice than come out to some spring practices and not graduate.

How long he takes and how good a job he does determines the profitability of his company. I have three years of graduate study in mathematics at MIT, and I couldn't do that job.

I continue to be confused on all of this information. But I think everybody agrees that we need more graduate medical programs.

I don't like to see UK lose either, both as an employee and graduate of this institution. But in this case, it's a David-and-Goliath story.

He can communicate with all different people, whether you're a Harvard graduate or whether you were brought up in the inner city. He's honest and straightforward and can relate to kids. That's what kids want today, to be honest and straightforward.

He pushed himself, he pushed us, he made us better. One of the things that I think was very interesting about Peter is that he didn't graduate from high school, and this gave him a kind of insecurity that made him want to work harder, and learn more, ... He wrote like a dream. You would think that he was reading a script, and it was all ad-lib. He was an anchor in every true sense of the word.

The idea is that we feel like a community. We do not graduate many students at a time because some of our members might take a session off, but they still come to our free lectures or events that promote any other member's works. No one ever stops being a part of our community. We are all very centered around the philosophy of being a writer support group.

The hey day when a high school or college education would serve a graduate for a lifetime is gone, ... Today's recipients of diplomas expect to have many jobs and to use a wide range of skills over their working lives.

The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck.

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

The goal of the show is to raise money for scholarships for seniors soon to graduate and for those who graduated this past December. One of the requirements for the scholarship is to be a resident of Flower Mound.

The game at Washington allows us the opportunity to bring (junior center) Jason Mgebroff back home, as well as graduate assistant Matt Logie ... We always try and get our student-athletes one trip back home during their career, and I know Jason will be very excited to play in that game.

The clubhouse is lifetime membership. Some folks have been with us since the beginning. . . . We don't have people graduate from the program often, but it does occur.

The city proper can serve their needs quite well as the neighborhoods come back, ... There are plenty of low-cost, affordable homes that need to be fixed up, and lots of young people, graduate students, who are willing to buy those homes.

The commitment here, not only to education, but to winning and winning with integrity, is very important to me. We're going to educate and graduate student athletes and we're going to compete for championships in all sports.

The major reason is that we think it's a real incentive, hence the name, it will get students to graduate on time.

Now the growth in the last year in Europe was very rapid and so you can say the gap is closing a bit. But I think it's still an issue of great concern. A lot of kids graduate from college in Europe without having the in-depth exposure that most U.S. students receive. So there's work to be done.

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.