College Decision Quotes

#1. The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Michael N. Castle

#3. CLOTHES SWITCH How would the story change if the characters were dressed differently - preppy, gangsta rapper-style? ETHNIC/RACE SWITCH What if the characters were given different ethnicities or races? How would that change the story? EMOTION SWITCH

Maureen McLaughlin

#4. It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

#5. I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

David Byrne

#6. University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties.

Peter Thiel

#7. Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.

Nathaniel Dean

#8. Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

Jacqueline Winspear

#9. I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

Phil Collins

#10. The decision to move to the second post-college city (or suburb, or town), however, is usually made independent of friends. No matter if you do it for love, career, family, or school, the second move is on your own terms.

Rachel Bertsche

#11. I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.

Nick Offerman

#12. By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

Donald Cram

#13. Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

James Boswell

#14. My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.

Garrett Atkins

#15. Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

Kobe Bryant

#16. There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

John Calvin

#17. Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference.

Rob Portman

#18. I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things ... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.

Josh Young

#19. I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

Earl Campbell

#20. Doubt is a storm. We either ride it out, or we change our course. Neither is right or wrong
to stay or go. Twenty years ago, should you have really married X, or Y? This college, or that? A life-changing decision one makes becomes the right decision by the fact of simply having been made.

T.M. McNally

#21. I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

Phil Klay

#22. The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked ... Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

Shaquille O'Neal

#23. A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.

Thomm Quackenbush

#24. The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

James Altucher