Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human. . . . And although you don't have complete control over the narrative (no author does, I can tell you), you could nevertheless create it.
I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life. '
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.
Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.
Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.