“I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.” MenScienceInterestNaturalDoorsStudentsCollegeTypeAmbitionChiefsFrankDevotedMy AmbitionWilsonNatural HistoryGood StudentsHart Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.” GivingMindSchoolBeliefCan DoNaturalCollegeDadHigh SchoolBuiltDeterminationFoundationMy DadCreditMindsetDuesSpeedCoaches Author:Robert Griffin III
“Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.” StatesSchoolNextBlackNaturalStepsEnvironmentStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolHistoricalRaisedUniversityGoing To CollegeColleges And UniversitiesDelawareAfter High School Author:Michael N. Castle
“Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative control. But I loved the craft and my father wanted me to get a college degree. Seemed natural to study what I loved and Marymount Manhattan has a wonderful theatre program, I highly recommend it! A lot of what I learned there I apply to my comicbook writing and pacing.” WritingEnoughAgeWantedPoliticalFatherNaturalActingCreativeStudyWonderfulCollegeDegreesProgramTheatreI RealizedCraftsVocationManhattanPacingCollege Degree Author:Holly Golightly
“My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'” ChildrenNaturalLove YouCollegeI Love YouMama Author:Robin Roberts
“I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.” FeelsPlayFeelingsNaturalConsciousnessCollegeProveExpectedNbaUnderdog Author:Steve Nash
“The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.” KnowsMayWarFeelingsHateNaturalCitiesFictionTechnologyCollegeProudMajorsBlameScience FictionCriticsPhysicsSuitsGentlemanDullBrownChemistryDespiseEngineersPersistBe ProudImpressiveRespectableCreepyRefrigeratorsEnglish MajorQuads Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.” ThinkingStoriesGrowsImaginationNaturalGrowing UpCollegePressesUniversityNewspapersShort StoryProgression Author:Gabriel Campisi
“I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really feel like it prepared me to be a storyteller - to make up stories and pretend to be every hero from every movie and TV show as a kid. So it was a natural progression.” FeelsChildrenStoriesShowsKidsWantedNaturalGrowing UpGrowingCollegeTvsHeroMovedPreparedTv ShowsStorytellerProgressionOnly Child Author:Joe Robert Cole