Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty…

“Junior faculty members used to come up to me and say, ‘Wow, you got tenure early; what’s your secret?’ I said, ‘It’s pretty simple,…

— Cal Newport

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

— Branch Rickey

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

— Rachel Hollis

I graduated high school a year early and moved to New York when I was 17 to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

— Mike Faist

It is said in sporting circles that great players leave the game a year too early rather than a year too late.

— Rudolph Straeuli

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths…

— Horace Mann

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got…

— Paul Lansky

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be…

— Sharon Shinn

Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it,…

— Henry Giroux

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number…

— Robert Evans

But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

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

— Amarinder Singh

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is…

— Learned Hand

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

— Norman Finkelstein