Med School Personal Statement Quotes

#1. There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that is difficult to define. Sort of like the scent and feeling of just-washed bed linens at the moment you slide your legs between them.

Debra Ginsberg

#2. Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!

Jaime Murray

#3. Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

Francis Ford Coppola

#4. Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

William DeWitt Hyde

#5. I am both worse and better than you thought.

Sylvia Plath

#6. Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard - the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money - the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue.

Ayn Rand

#7. Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

J.K. Rowling

#8. Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.

Ben Horowitz

#10. It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

Hamilton Wright Mabie