'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D.… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
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In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, I headed to graduate school at the University of Utah and joined the pioneering program in computer graphics… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
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There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
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All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
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