I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
'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
When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Kerry James Marshall especially was a huge influence on me in graduate school, as were Wangechi Mutu and Julie Mehretu. These artists… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
“They all say, Go on to graduate studies, and they give you a bit of money; so you do, and you think,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I am writing a treatise just now" said the badger, coughing diffidently to show that he was absolutely set on explaining it,… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist.… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“I'll bite: Hard science TA's and RA's often repair equipment; it's part of our science. If you want a silver spoon, don't… — Greg Lindahl Copy Share Image
The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
“It was possible to explore the 'great tradition' of the English novel and believe that in doing so you were addressing questions… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I love working with women. I think they're beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
People don't understand: I've always been busy. They think that, "Oh, he's too busy, blah blah blah...," but for me, this is… — Russell Wilson Copy Share Image
I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“and while a couple of prorectors are feared, none of them is all that much respected, and they're avoided, and stick together… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity.… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the Bible won't tell you directly, "Thou shalt take the new job in marketing..." or "Thou shalt go directly from undergraduate… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
My path to poetry was slow and meandering. When I eventually found my way to graduate school at 29, making a life… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
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
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
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