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  • My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

  • And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students.

    Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

    Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.
  • Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.

    Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.
  • Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

    Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.418, Hachette UK
  • I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

    Ucla   Firsts   Students  
  • An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

    Thinking   Class   Oxford  
    Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.216, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  • If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

    Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin
  • There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

    Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”
  • As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.

    "Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Validation of Continental Drift", pp. 160-161, 1977.
  • We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

    Jobs   College   Needs  
  • I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

    Daughter   Roles   Half  
  • There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

    New York   War   Evil  
    "Moral Equivalence and Muslim Violence" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2010.
  • All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

    "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.
  • Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

  • I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.

    Real   Writing   School  
  • Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

    Life   Smile   Graduation  
  • When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

    "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.
  • When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

  • The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.

    Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.304, John Wiley & Sons
  • There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students were even better. In the old days, if you offered a graduate student a thiamine-deficient diet, he gladly went on it, for that was the only way he could eat. Science is getting to be more and more difficult.

    Regret   Science   Animal  
  • It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

  • Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  • Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

  • Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

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