After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said:… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Junior faculty members used to come up to me and say, ‘Wow, you got tenure early; what’s your secret?’ I said, ‘It’s… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I believe we accomplished a lot of good things while I was in office. We maintained a very good working relationship with… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If they can get 15 or higher, it will be a very bad night for House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan twisted himself… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I made $400.00 a week for my tenure at GLOW. I was there for about nine months. — Ivory Copy Share Image
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week.… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment,… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Harvard is famous for being an 'absorbing state' for faculty with almost no one leaving it for another institution, which is why… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
