Ph Thesis Quotes

#1. I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.

Sachin Tendulkar

#2. I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is are you really serious about what you're doing?"

This was said to a young woman who had already spent five years and over $10,000 getting to that point in her Ph.D. program.

Joanna Russ

#3. The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

Bob Dylan

#4. But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.

Samuel Beckett

#5. If dreams are thwarted, then yearning must take their place
If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

#6. I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

Victor Hugo

#7. It was a Saturday, soft and silent, when the Wind spoke for the first time.

James Hugh Comey

#8. We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

Greg Graffin

#9. Prof. Emi Ito said "Lailah, if you can't explain the scientific observations in a simple sentence, it means you do not know enough.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#11. My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.

Irwin Rose

#12. Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day ... Never surrender.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#13. I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

Dambisa Moyo