Drew Gilpin Faust quotes
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“I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.”
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“A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future”
-- Drew Gilpin FaustSource : "Installation address: Unleashing our most ambitious imaginings". Public Speech, Cambridge, www.harvard.edu. October 12, 2007.
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“Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.”
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“A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.”
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“The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.”
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“The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.”
-- Drew Gilpin FaustSource : "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War". Book by Drew Gilpin Faust, 2008.
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“I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.”
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“I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.”
-- Drew Gilpin FaustSource : "Women in Leadership: Drew Gilpin Faust". "Nightly Business Report" with Susie Gharib, wp.nbr.com. December 26, 2011.
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“If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.”
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“Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.”
-- Drew Gilpin Faust
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