Writing A Dissertation Quotes

#1. Jonah squealed, jumping up and down and shaking his pom-poms. His skirt swished around his scrawny yellow knees.
"Jonah, can I give you a piece of sisterly advice?"
"Yeah."
"If you ever want to lose your virginity, don't do that again. Ever.

Carrie Harris

#2. He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Heinrich Heine

#3. A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

Keith Devlin

#4. And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. Some man's dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. If Satan gave you instructions for writing the book report from Hell, it would closely resemble those of a Ph.D. dissertation.

Tiffany Reisz

#7. I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

Abraham Pais

#8. My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism.

Matthew Weiner

#9. When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

Bat For Lashes

#10. I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.

Alan Furst

#11. We can assume that those who 'have it all' and express an arrogant and greedy attitude, appears to be unthankful.

Ellen J. Barrier

#12. Romantic relationship is meant to be romantic, which means loving. If it is not any more you may ask yourself why you are still together.

Raphael Zernoff

#13. True love is not a crock, but patriotism is.

Rebecca Wells

#14. I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

George W. Bush

#15. History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

#16. I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

Jane McGonigal

#17. The only way to get people to do anything is to recognize their importance and thereby make them feel important. Every person's deepest lifelong desire is to be significant and to be recognized.

Keith Ferrazzi

#18. Prof. Gerd Gleixner said " Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks .

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. For every victory," Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, "there is a price.

Jacqueline Carey

#20. This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

Tom Ford

#21. I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

Bill O'Reilly

#22. I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects

Napoleon Hill

#23. I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

Lady Gaga

#24. The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

Tom Stoppard