“When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.” ThinkingWritingStillsCoursesEasyCollegeInspired Author:Lisel Mueller
“There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.” StillsTwoStoriesJobsEasyBlackPresidentEducationHellWeekFieldsCollegeDiedAfrican AmericanBlack WomenTwo Weeks Author:Johnnetta B. Cole
“In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.” WantYearsMeanImportantEndsSometimesPhilosophyActionLawAsksNamesEasyDifficultChallengesDecisionPathCollegeComplicatedJustifyGuardianOur ActionsRationalizeExpediencyDifficult DecisionsEnds Justify The Means Author:Beau Biden
“I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.” EasyCollegeDown The RoadLouisiana Author:Jeff Mangum
“I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales work. I would have thought I'd be good at it, but I wasn't. It's so easy in acting. Everything falls into place when they write that you're a salesman. People just say yes, and then it's great.” PeopleWritingKindFallFoundEasyDifficultActingDoorsTelevisionCollegeBe GoodSellingCablesSalesmanFall Into PlaceSubscriptionEverything Falls Into Place Author:Greg Kinnear
“I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.” KnowsSchoolEasyCollegeHigh SchoolExpectedOverwhelmingRoutes Author:Chase Utley
“In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.” EasyCollegeFemaleProximityFemale Friendship Author:Greta Gerwig
“I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.” PeopleWorldPersonsDifferentHardWholeBigsWould BeSchoolJobsEasyPayAttentionCareersAudienceFrontsCollegeStandingWhole WorldCupsPay AttentionBest ThingsGradesBreastsGraduatesGood JobReductionGraduate SchoolGood GradesGood CollegeSmall Person Author:Janeane Garofalo
“It's been a little tough just because we've been playing so much. Your lives are getting a little more complicated than they were straight out of college when we first started. People are starting to get married, have families and all, it becomes more of a challenge. It's not an easy lifestyle.” PeopleFirstsLittlesEasyChallengesCollegeMarriedToughStartingComplicatedLifestyleEasy Life Author:Barry Privett
“The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.” KidsSchoolEasyLevelsCareersCollegeTypeHigh SchoolProgramGood ThingsDivisionCompetingIdentifyingRecruitEasy ThingsNcaa Author:Billy Kennedy
“I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do". With theater, really, I'd be around the gays.” WantKidsWantedSchoolGuyEasyDesignCollegeGayLateHigh SchoolTheaterClubsLightingThespians Author:James Pearse Connelly
“To me, when you got a 20-year-old running back or 21-year-old receiver that's just coming out of college and you're out working these guys, age really don't matter. So it's easy for me to see what it is. People say it's all about age, but to me, it's mind over matter.” PeopleYearsMindMatterRunningAgeGuyEasyCollegeComing OutReceiverRunning Back Author:Adrian Peterson
“The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six.” PeopleWayMayLongBookProblemAbleSchoolReadingEasyEffortWorryWonderfulWeekCollegeSixPagesHigh SchoolGraduatesJoyceUlyssesSeminars Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.” KindWantedEasyBlackTaughtCollegeMetsMountainAreasEnglandCome UpIslandsYankeesLecturesHarvardEasy To GetNew EnglandPennsylvaniaMaineBuckminster FullerKenneth Author:Paul Laffoley
“In college I took an acting class as a joke. It sounded like something fun and easy at the time. I had originally wanted to go to art school, but I gave all that up because I didn't want to be a starving artist.” WantArtWantedSchoolArtistFunEasyActingClassCollegeJokesStarvingLike SomethingArt SchoolActing ClassesStarving Artist Author:Michael Graziadei
“For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.” ThinkingWayWritingBelieveSaidSelfSchoolLyingEasyCareersTeacherCollegeQuietHigh SchoolProfessionRidiculousIdiotAmerican HistoryBeneficialExamHistory TeacherGood CollegeSchool History Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't think anything can substitute long talks, and long talks are somehow never as easy to schedule again as they were in school, when most people - at least in my little socioeconomic corner of the world - live not with their families or sexual partners, but with same-sex friends. I really miss that from college. I never really thought at the time about how things would never be that way again.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLittlesLongSchoolSexEasyMissingCollegeCornersPartnersSubstitutesSchedulesCorners Of The World Author:Elif Batuman
“If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.” IfsTryingEasyToo MuchPlayerCollegeSeriousLike YouCoachesCoachingLimbo Author:Geno Auriemma
“I'm 64, but I act like I'm still 12. I go to schools. At colleges, they come out in droves, they almost scare me. I think it's just to see if I'm still alive. After I work them out - and it's not easy - I sit them down and we have a serious talk. Are they eating? Working on their body? I can say things parents won't say. No matter where I go, I talk to each one individually after I teach. They tell me things like, 'I'm starving, guys like girls thinner.' I give them concrete advice about self-image and self-worth.” IfsThinkingGivingStillsI CanSelfMatterBodySchoolGuyGirlEasyParentTeachAliveAdviceCollegeSeriousEatingDown AndSelf WorthScareConcreteStarving Author:Richard Simmons