Graduate Programs Quotes

#1. A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

Russell Banks

#2. Real happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one's true Self.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

James Franco

#4. I spent years in a graduate literature program learning what makes great writing, and the only conclusion we came to was that the future of graduate literature programs was safe because nobody is ever going to agree on what makes great writing.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can't bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. I'm really insecure about everything.

Megan Fox

#7. A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#8. To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Kanye West

#9. I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

#10. Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Marilyn Hacker

#11. People we've encountered at pivotal moments who profoundly influence our direction are not necessarily the people whose names everybody knows. More often, they are the people who say or do just the right thing, at the right time.

Eric Burdon