Grad School Quotes:

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

- Ted Nelson

topic: Graduation, School, Years, Graduate School, Grad School

I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

- Carolyn Hax

source: "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

topic: Couple, Hate, School, Grad, Grad School

I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

- Gene Weingarten

source: "Tuesdays with Moron: Chatological Humor update". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 10, 2015.

topic: School, Careers, Decision, Grad, Grad School

I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.

- Brice Marden

topic: Grad, Grad School

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

- Richard Powers

topic: Grad, Grad School

I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.

- Saladin Ahmed

source: Source: fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com

topic: School, Adventure, Years, Grad, Grad School

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

- Taylor Schilling

topic: Teacher, School, Differences, Grad School, Broken Bone

I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on "Community."

- Gillian Jacobs

source: "Gillian Jacobs Talks Working With First-Time Filmmakers, Her New Short and the Relationship Between 'Community' and Its Online Following". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2013.

topic: School, Community, Gone, Grad School

I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

- Jami Attenberg

source: "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

topic: Drinking, Book, Writing, Grad, Grad School

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

- W. Richard Stevens

topic: Jobs, School, Flying, Grad School, Seniority

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

- Thomas Haden Church

topic: School, Voice, Actors, Grad School

It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

- Mark Udall

topic: Running, School, Office, Starting A Family, Life Challenges

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

- Jonathan Kellerman

source: Jonathan Kellerman (2003). “Devil's Waltz: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.262, Ballantine Books

topic: Stress, School, Mad, Grad School

My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.

- Ana Ortiz

topic: Mother, School, Supportive, Grad School

I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

- Hank Azaria

source: Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2011.

topic: School, College, People, Grad School

Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

- David Burge

topic: School, Eagles, Political, Truckers, Grad School

If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.

- Michael Ellsberg

topic: Jobs, Attitude, Educational, Job Creation, Undergraduate

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

- Dean Karnazes

topic: Jobs, School, College, Grad School

There are the relationships you make. All of the friends I made in grad school are the closest ones that I have.

- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: School, Grad, Made, Grad School

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.

- Michael J. Massimino

topic: School, Space, Together, Robotics, Grad School

Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

- Rich Sommer

topic: New York, School, Night, Grad School

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

- John D'Agata

topic: School, Grad, Figures, Grad School

And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.

- John D'Agata

topic: Book, School, Years, Giving Voice, Grad School

I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.

- John D'Agata

topic: School, Program, Grad, Grad School

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.

- Harry Turtledove

source: Source: www.sfsignal.com

topic: Writing, School, Fiction, Early 20s, Grad School

The Thanksgiving meal should not be treated as a grad school exam or an Olympic dive. Whatever you cook will be good enough - unless you make that Twinkie turkey stuffing we're suddenly hearing too much about.

- Mary Schmich

source: "Thanksgiving Helper Hotline addresses pressing holiday issues" by Mary Schmich, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2012.

topic: School, Turkeys, Too Much, Grad School

I started treating my career as if it was a guarantee,if things get difficult and things don't work out, I'm not gonna think I have a Plan B, which is grad school, or Plan C, which is an office job. I'm just gonna have a Plan A, a Plan A 2.0, a Plan A 3.0, and that's what I'm going to do. Because entertainment and YouTube are always going to be my Plan A.

- Lilly Singh

topic: Jobs, School, Thinking, Office Jobs, Grad School

In grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncé and Lady Gaga after they did the collaboration for "Telephone." I just kind of kept going. That was quite a while ago - Beyoncé meant something very different then than she does now.

- Morgan Parker

source: "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

topic: Writing Poems, Grad School

I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled into basically forgetting I was black, in - meaning that everyone you play at a conservatory, 95 percent of the characters are non-black.

- Mahershala Ali

topic: Sports, School, Character, Grad School, Conservatory

I felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was going to save me, and so I moved myself across the country for grad school and yet still didn't have a home. It was upsetting. And I know that's a common feeling.

- John D'Agata

topic: Country, School, Home, Grad School

There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!

- Jill Soloway

topic: School, Artist, Feelings, Grad School

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Jobs, School, Get Better, Knowledge Workers, Grad School

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

- Wolf Blitzer

source: "Reporting tips from Wolf Blitzer". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2011.

topic: Jobs, School, Agency, Grad School, Entry

I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to be a part of the movie business and make movies. That's why I went to AFI grad school for filmmaking.

- Jeff Vespa

source: "Discovering Jeff Vespa". Interview with Jena Malone, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 14, 2014.

topic: School, Inspired, Grad, Grad School

I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

- Kalup Linzy

topic: Art, School, Exercise, Grad, Grad School

As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.

- N.D. Wilson

topic: Dream, Honesty, Reading, Grad, Grad School

The most fun thing about doing the show is that, as a nerd, the fun has been in learning and having it be like a grad school for me, every day. Every moment is a new experience. Every conversation is a new gain.

- Steven Yeun

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Fun Things, Grad, Grad School

And then, one acting class turned into two, turned into four, and then turned into, "I love this. I could do this for the rest of my life. But, I don't have a background in acting. I never acted in college, or did anything like that. How can I go about doing this?" That meant going to grad school and getting some training, and I did. I literally walked down the path. It was real fortuitous for me to walk by that school, that one morning.

- Tim Kang

topic: Morning, Real, School, Grad, Fortuitous

You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.

- Christian Finnegan

topic: School, Games, Names, Grad, Trivial Things

Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.

- Toks Olagundoye

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Determination, Hard Work, School, Grad, Everyone Is Different

I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.

- Elif Batuman

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Communication, Writing, School, Grad, Grad School