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source: H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Teresa, Managing Time

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

- Paul Halmos

topic: Clever, Students, Graduates, Fourier, Graduate Students

I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

topic: Religious, Children, Years, Religious Community, Graduate Students

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

- Alan Perlis

topic: Compassion, Students, Graduates, Graduate Students

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

- Lawrence Wright

topic: Cards, Students, Graduates, Graduate Students

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

- John Forbes Nash

topic: Choices, Competition, Fellowship, Graduate Students, Princeton

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

- Marilyn Hacker

topic: Teaching, Mean, Groups, Graduate Students

Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can't do myself, my graduate students should be doing.

- John Maeda

topic: Design, Students, Graduates, Undergraduate, Graduate Students

I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

- Carol Gilligan

topic: Daughter, Roles, Half, Graduate Students

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

- Nora Roberts

source: Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Going To College, Inspire Students

I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Real, Writing, School, Graduate Students

The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.

- Laurent A. Daloz

source: Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.304, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Mean, Artist, Aim Of Education, Graduate Students

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

- Robert Darnton

topic: Book, Communication, Writing, Graduate Students

Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.

- Joseph DeRisi

topic: Past, Technology, Dna, Graduate Students

There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.

- Dennis Prager

source: "Moral Equivalence and Muslim Violence" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2010.

topic: New York, War, Evil, Modern Liberalism, Columbia University

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