Quotes About New Graduates

#1. In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

Jill Lepore

#2. In a story so good that it should be apocryphal, Zappos offers graduates of their two-week paid training school $2,000 if they will quit their new jobs.

Seth Godin

#3. Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

Naomie Harris

#4. The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.

Shulamith Firestone

#5. A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better.

Paul Halmos

#6. While appreciating the beauty around her, Eden considered the darkness that lay ahead.

Linda Lee Chaikin

#7. There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

Timothy Garton Ash

#8. The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.

George Ayittey

#9. Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.

David Malpass

#10. Love with freedom is superior to both the freedom without love and the love without freedom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you're pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job. And life is too short for that.

Tim Cook

#12. Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#13. Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

George Washington

#14. Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Michael Bloomberg

#15. The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.

James Dyson

#16. Quietness rose within Aquila, easing his wild unrest as the salve was cooling the smart of his gashed side. But that was always the way with Brother Ninnias
the quietness, the sense of sanctuary, were things that he carried with him.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#17. Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields such as social work.

Stephanie Coontz

#18. The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.

Rodney Brooks

#19. Halt! We are attempting an arrest!"

"Yeah, we're aware," Quinn muttered under her breath.

Ash Gray

#20. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Edward De Bono