Quotes About Graduate Studies

#1. I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#2. Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

Harold E. Varmus

#3. Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Sydney Pollack

#4. The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

David Gross

#5. I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

Zoe Kazan

#6. The pursuit of PhD is enduring daring adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

Timothy Keller

#8. 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

#9. I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

Chen-Ning Yang

#10. People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#12. He was a sleaze, a nobody, a former graduate student of English studies.

Jonathan Franzen

#13. My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Hill Harper

#14. Let every student of nature take this as a rule,
that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Francis Bacon

#15. We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know where is safe, where is not safe - they just want to prove themselves.

Anne Sebba

#17. The pursuit of PhD is an enduring daring adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power had a way of distorting your personality. And to actually want to work that hard, you had to be at least a little bit screwed up.

Lev Grossman

#19. We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

Richard Briers

#20. Surely, the Creator was with me in every circumstance. He has granted me a successful completion of my doctorate degree.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.

Tom Robbins

#22. You really have to get to know the person's mental state. You have to understand what drives them and what motivates them.

Robin Farina

#23. So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie.

Paul Michael Glaser

#24. PhD is possible at any age!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

Bruce Robinson

#26. All the physical comes from the mental.

Clara Hughes

#27. I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'

Charles Dance

#28. I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol P. Christ