“If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.” IfsAbleJobsPlansStudentsCollegeGraduatesHealth Plan Author:Jacob Lew
“You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?” KnowsMeanHas BeensDifferentCareKidsAbleSchoolTogetherCollegeHigh SchoolHanging OutGood FriendWho CaresNerdyClique Author:Brandon Sanderson
“I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.” LittlesImportantEnoughAbleWantedParentUnderstandingSuccessfulCollegeLuckyPursueBeing Successful Author:Allison Williams
“Everyone I know thinks television is the most important part of my life. I did it for the money! I was able to send my daughter to college.” ThinkingKnowsImportantAbleTelevisionCollegeDaughterMy Daughter Author:Jack Germond
“And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home. When he asks for colleges to educate ministers, tell him you must educate woman, that she may do away with the necessity of ministers, so that they may be able to go to some useful employment.” MayHomeAblePurposeAsksAtheismCollegeHigherMissionsPositive AtheismEmploymentMinistersEducateMissionary Author:Ernestine Rose
“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.” ThinkingMindI CanFactsRealityRunningAbleUsedLanguageDesignCollegeTestsEquipmentVirtual RealityLivestock Author:Temple Grandin
“We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.” IfsLittlesEnoughFactsAbleLastsDealsTakenChildhoodInformationCollegeUniversityThese DaysContemplatingGoing OutSurvivedColleges And UniversitiesLamentation Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.” PlayMightAbleRealizingActingCollegeProfessionBlundersLead In Author:Ed Asner
“Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.” PeopleWantWritingReasonAbleWantedFilmStuffBehindsClassCollegeMaterialsInvolvedSceneMajorsBehind The ScenesScreenwriting Author:Miranda Cosgrove
“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.” WorldNeedsGivingYearsWellsChildrenAgeAbleSchoolParentSuccessfulStudentsCollegeNeededHabitSkillsLateLowsIntelligentComplexesPatternsHeavyPlanningBackgroundsIncomeSettingSettingsTwelveLoadParticipationDeficitAssignmentsThirteenElementary SchoolCollege StudentsLow Income Book:School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project
“I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.” ThinkingMenDifferentStatesProblemSeemsAbleDifferencesMistakeCollegeHe ManBrotherMy BrotherSameness Author:Zadie Smith
“If you're willing to put in the work, the idea is that you should be able to raise a family and own a home, not go bankrupt because you got sick, 'cause you've got some health insurance that helps you deal with those difficult times; that you can send your kids to college; that you can put some money away for retirement. That's all most people want. Folks don't have unrealistic ambitions. They do believe that if they work hard, they should be able to achieve that small measure of an American dream.” PeopleIfsWantShouldBelieveIdeasHardHelpingHomeDreamKidsAbleCausesDifficultDealsAchieveCollegeWillingHard WorkAmbitionSickRaisesFolksRetirementAmerican DreamDifficult Times Author:Barack Obama
“I heard this today and I thought this was fascinating and interesting. President Bush has two daughters, two beautiful daughters, and they may work on their father's presidential campaign after they get out of college and I thought, well, that's a pretty good move because in this economy, they won't be able to find real jobs.” WellsMayTwoRealTodayAbleJobsBeautifulMovingFatherPresidentInterestingEconomyHeardCollegeDaughterCampaignsPresidentialFascinatingPresident BushReal JobsPresidential CampaignTwo DaughtersBeautiful Daughter Author:David Letterman
“I think Buffy was a grown-up. One of the amazing things about the show was that I was able to grow with her. Yes, she started in high school, and then she went to college, and then essentially she was a mother to all the other Slayers, so I always felt like Buffy was a grown-up.” ThinkingShowsAbleSchoolMotherGrowsFeltCollegeHigh SchoolAmazing ThingsSlayer Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.” NeedsKindUseAbleCreativeComedyCollegeSkillsComfortableConsciousBe CreativeBoston Author:Amy Poehler
“I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.” AbleSchoolCareersFantasyTeamCollegeUnderstoodHigh SchoolTrainChanging My LifeRedos Author:Chael Sonnen
“What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.” FirstsMadeAbleOrderChoicesStudentsCollegeAthleteGood ChoicesMaking Good ChoicesStudent Athlete Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I've basically been able to do everything, I basically run my own career and the decisions I make - whether it's how I'm gonna roll out music, how I'm gonna play on tours, different strategies for releasing and marketing things - and that comes from being college educated and someone who's interested in that side of the business rather than only the music. If anything I think that's where the biggest direct influence comes from.” IfsThinkingDifferentPlayRunningAbleSidesMy OwnDecisionCareersInfluenceCollegeDirectStrategyMarketingEducated Author:Hoodie Allen
“I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.” ThinkingWorldMayHomeKidsAbleSchoolThis WorldCollegeHabitHigh SchoolAbsolutesSchoolingGoing To College Author:Mark Cuban
“I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.” WorldFirstsBigsAbleHurtAchieveEventsCollegeAchievementSoccerMedalUnrealSporting EventsI Was Hurt Author:Mark Zupan
“I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos.” AbleStudentsCollegeProductionsVideoAdvertisingExpensesRevenueCollege Students Author:Marques Brownlee
“I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.” KindBookIdeasAbleJobsFeltInterestGrowing UpRecordsGrowingOne ThingRocksMediaTelevisionCollegeNormalConsciousStonesCriticismCriticsNo IdeaDawnRollingRolling Stones Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Every Cuban has a house to live in, no matter how meager. That house is provided by government. Every Cuban who gets sick can go to a doctor or a hospital and get medical attention while 45 million Americans don't have medical insurance. Every Cuban can get education from the kindergarten through college and they don't have to pay. What is Castro doing that we might benefit from-if we are not too arrogant and falsely proud to see what he is doing in a small nation and what we have not been able to do or not been willing to do in the greatest nation on the earth?” IfsMatterGovernmentMightAbleEarthHouseNationsPayAttentionMillionsCollegeWillingProudBenefitsDoctorsSickMedicalHospitalsArrogantCubanKindergartenCastroSmall NationsMedical Insurance Author:Louis Farrakhan
“My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.” FactsAbleCollegeMy FriendsTeaseFriend LoveSophomoreTease Me Author:Noah Gray-Cabey
“I played with a left hamstring injury since playing college football at Washington University. I went to doctors all over the country to find out what was wrong, and none of them could figure out the problem in my hamstring. I went to Drs. Baker and they found a huge knot in my hamstring. They were able to release it and fix my hamstring problem.” CountryProblemAbleFoundLeftFiguresFootballCollegeHugeDoctorsUniversityReleaseInjuryDrsKnotsBakersCollege FootballHamstrings Author:Corey Dillon
“It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are.” WayKindWholeBigsAbleGoalMy OwnWifeJourneyCollegeSceneMarriedMovedScaryMy WifeGymnasticsHoustonChanging My LifeBig ChangesNew Journey Author:Jonathan Horton
“There's very few of us who are able to be successful, which is why so many guys out of college can't continue the sport. It's unfortunate because there's just no financial backing. I've been very blessed with sponsors.” AbleGuySportsSuccessfulCollegeBlessedFinancialBeing SuccessfulUnfortunateSponsors Author:Jonathan Horton
“I'm passionate about coaching and being able to mentor young men in a lot of different ways. I think it's good to be able to do what you love to do. It's been in me since the beginning. I was telling my college coach what to do and he trusted me. When I got into the NBA, I started having conversations with coaches. Coach Gregg Popp(avich) brought a lot out in me. Coach Don Nelson gave me an incredible opportunity to spend some time with him and he molded me but at the same time allowed me to be myself.” ThinkingMenWayDifferentAbleYoungOpportunityCollegeConversationIncrediblesPassionateCoachesDifferent WaysYoung ManCoachingNbaTrustedMentorWhat You LoveNelson Author:Avery Johnson
“My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.” TwoBigsWould BeAbleActorsFootballCollegeDadMy DadAthleteCoachesAthleticCollege FootballFootball Coach Author:Matt Barr
“...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.” FirstsHomeAbleWaterCommunityChallengesSupportTeachingStudentsCollegeConvictionTemptationBridgesConsistentMultitudesSchooledSemesterTroubled Waters Author:Laura Schlessinger
“We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.” NeedsAbleJobsPayStudentsCollegeCostDegreesAreasGraduatesIncentivesLoanGraduate Students Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.” PeopleHas BeensDoneCareAbleJobsYoungTermDealsClassMiddleCollegeTrainingFairsSickPaidRaisesFocusedMiddle ClassPushingMinimumGood JobAffordableMinimum WageAffordable Care ActJob Training Author:Barack Obama
“My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.” PeopleThinkingMadeAbleSchoolMotherWishParentTeacherWonderfulCollegeGoes OnHigh SchoolHillsAffluentDiplomaExtremityAppalachiaWonderful TeacherHigh School Diploma Author:Dwight Yoakam
“Essentially what my campaign is about, it`s about anything, this is saying we`ve got bring that money back into the middle class and working families. We have to create jobs, we have to raise, we have to make public colleges and universities tuition free so kids in that community who are studying hard understand that some day they will be able to go to college.” HardKidsAbleJobsCommunityClassStudyMiddleCollegeRaisesUniversityCampaignsMiddle ClassTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.” NeedsShouldPersonsIdeasCountryAbleDesireAbilityEducationCollegeHigherIncomeRadicalGermanyOther CountriesHigher EducationTuitionInexpensiveScandinaviaRadical IdeasCollege Tuition Author:Bernie Sanders
“I can't say there was one thing in particular that helped prepare me for life beyond basketball except for the exposure to college and that laboratory, that allows us to learn who and what we are, and to be able to utilize that knowledge in real life.” I CanRealAbleOne ThingCollegeParticularBasketballReal LifeExposureLaboratory Author:Len Elmore
“I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.” NeedsYearsLooksChildrenEnoughKidsAbleWorryCollegeOur ChildrenTablesYour ChildrenEarningFees Author:Shane Filan
“We need a movement that says in a highly competitive global economy all of our kids who have the ability, the qualifications and the desire, will be able to get a college education regardless of income because we will make public colleges and universities tuition free.” NeedsKidsAbleDesireAbilityEconomyMovementCollegeUniversityIncomeQualificationsGlobal EconomyCollege EducationTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!” IfsThinkingHas BeensAbleTeacherCollegeRegretDadProveMy DadStuckProfessorsBeefPassed AwayCollege ProfessorsRoast Beef Author:Meg Cabot
“When I was in school, I was very much into just sports, mostly basketball, and didn't really see myself as much of a student. But once I got into college, I figured I wasn't going to be play beyond college. I started to think what was I going to do, since I wouldn't be able to make a living with basketball. There were a couple of things I liked to do. I wrote poetry, spoken word mostly.” ThinkingPlayAbleSchoolSportsStudentsCollegeCoupleBasketballSpoken Word Author:Matt de la Pena
“I'm a product of state schools. I had a working-class family. We had no books. I was the first to go to college. But I didn't really think about it, or about making money. I was just going to be an artist, and I've been fortunate. I've never had to work for anybody nor have I had to write for money. Maybe that's another reason that I've been able to be productive. I haven't had to use my writing to make a living.” ThinkingWritingFirstsBookStatesReasonUseAbleSchoolArtistClassHavensCollegeProductsMaking MoneyFortunateProductiveWorking Class Author:T.C. Boyle
“What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.” WantKidsAbleClassMiddleCollegeTrumpMiddle Class Author:Hillary Clinton
“I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.” PeopleImportantPlayCharacterMightAbleSchoolCrazyCollegePeriodsI Realized Author:Condola Rashad
“When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird [1962], Gigi [1958], A Woman Under the Influence [1974]. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.” FirstsRealEnoughBigsAbleYoungSawsInfluenceCollegeMomConnectionsMy MomObsessedPrintPhasesSheetsGet RealMockingbirdProjectorsKill A Mockingbird Author:Winona Ryder
“When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.” PlayCharacterAbleFilmCareersTelevisionCollegeAreasDecidedWidePursueGenreRangePerformersMuppet Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo
“I did study drama at Catholic U, but the undergraduates weren't put in productions, really, except as extras, and it wasn't a hands-on kind of thing at all. I couldn't afford to go to another college. And my grandparents lived in D.C., so I was able to live with them, and that's how I was able to afford it at all.” KindHandsAbleStudyCollegeDramaCatholicProductionsExtrasGrandparent Author:Susan Sarandon
“I'm so blessed to be able to work with some of the best writers out there, and it's kind of like college with me sitting in a room with some of the best of the best and really taking it in and learning from them, but then also taking time to sit and tell them my stories - it's one of the biggest blessings that could have ever happened.” KindStoriesAbleRoomsHappenedCollegeBlessingSittingBlessedTake TimeBest Of The Best Author:Jamie Lynn Spears
“Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money. It also means that people in the middle class and modest incomes to be able to pay for their retirement, to get a down payment for a home, to send a child to college.” PeopleMeanChildrenHomeAbleIndividualPayClassEconomyGrowingMiddleCollegeIncomeMiddle ClassRetirementAllowingModestPayment Author:Mitt Romney
“I wanted to lose 30 pounds healthfully and still be able to enjoy my college experience. Having succeeded in doing just that, I wanted to share my experiences with others who could benefit from my direct knowledge of the difficulty of trying to balance college life with being healthy. It became a journey about healthy lifestyle choices, including tips and tricks for creating a new relationship with food where I was in control and could learn to love food healthfully again.” TryingStillsAbleWantedChoicesEnjoyLosesJourneyShareCollegeBalanceHealthyBenefitsCreatingDirectDifficultyIncludingLifestyleTricksPoundsHealthy LifestyleFood LoveCollege LifeNew RelationshipLifestyle ChoicesCollege Experience Author:Daphne Oz
“I'm not going to be able to talk about the people who are involved specifically in any ongoing judicial process. We do the same thing with all our players. We take a look, as I said, at their personal family life, we look at the history of what they've done in high school and college.” PeopleLooksSaidDoneAbleSchoolProcessPlayerCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolOngoingFamily LifeJudicial Author:Bill Belichick