Doctoral Achievement Quotes

#1. Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

William Shakespeare

#2. Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.

Bill Gates

#4. Just a bullet a bag and a dream that's all I had now look at what I got

Saira Viola

#5. All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

Erica Jong

#6. As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend." 7-20

Philip Yancey

#7. When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Mira Sorvino

#8. I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!

Alexander Herrmann

#9. Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Ramana Maharshi

#10. One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

Lemony Snicket

#11. The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible.

Gustave Le Bon