“It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.” MovingCenturyEventsDegreesFoolishPaceAsianEmergingObsoleteDurabilityEmerging Markets Author:Ian Bremmer
“Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.” TwoDifferentLanguageSocialUnderstandingInterestDegreesBehaviorIntellectualCoreFeaturesDisabilityReach OutAutismDelayCognitionDifferent DirectionsRepetitiveEpilepsyIntellectual Disability Author:Gerald Fischbach
“There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that could be generated in the brain to exactly the same stimulus and there could be differences there.” WayCertainDifferencesBrainExampleDegreesResponseObjectivesDistinctionStimulus Author:Antonio Damasio
“In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.” PeopleWayDifferentActorsAttentionDegreesDifferent WaysConcentration Author:Constantin Stanislavski
“The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.” WayNeedsMadeDecisionStudentsDegreesUniversityFacultyDecisions Made Author:Louis Menand
“The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.” YearsLongStillsPeriodsDegreesInsecurityLaddersBachelorsTenureApprenticeshipPhdsMedian Author:Louis Menand
“It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their schools, by their schools where they're graduate students, and that does become exploitative eventually because they're very cheap labor and there's a way in which in it's not in the institution's interest to give them a degree if they can continue to employ them, I don't think anybody thinks that way, but effectively that's the way the system is starting to work.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingDoeSchoolJobsDifficultInterestTeachingStudentsDegreesLaborInstitutionsStartingGraduatesEmployedAssistantsInstructorsGraduate StudentsCheap LaborStay In School Author:Louis Menand
“A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."” WayHeartKindChildrenPlayFunPerfectDegreesOkayWho You AreComicReliefVillainNot AloneChild Of GodComic ReliefPerfect Child Author:Missi Pyle
“Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.” ThinkingLawLinesDegreesOfficials Author:Benjamin Carson
“Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.” KnowsWellsMeanMastersDegreesUniversityDividedChicagoListenersIntimidatingAnthropology Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.” LooksCertainKnowingDegreesDistortionCognitive Author:Sarah Silverman
“Sales is an experiment - there's no right or wrong, just varying degrees of effectiveness. Our job is to constantly seek ways we can increase our effectiveness.” WayJobsDegreesIncreaseExperimentsEffectiveness Author:Jill Konrath
“You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.” PeopleMindHeartArtHandsEyeHateProcessResultsTalkingProductsDegreesHandleNot SureCriticizeConfusing Author:Jeff Melvoin
“I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical talent we do here in the states. Here people have been trained much more specifically - they know exactly what they're doing. The Europeans are perhaps slower, but in the end damn near as good.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHas BeensEndsStatesTalentDegreesArtisticDamnSpontaneous Author:Lee Van Cleef
“A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, "This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!"” Would BeVoiceTalkingCenturyDegreesDoctorsMedicalJournalGet RealReally Interesting19th CenturyPathology Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.” ThinkingPolicyDegreesNotionForeign PolicySuperpowerAmerican Foreign PolicyInterventionism Author:Barney Frank
“The fact that you have government-guaranteed student loans has created a whole new sector in the American economy that didn't really exist before - private for-profit universities that sell junk degrees that don't help the students. They promise the students, "We'll help you get a better job. We'll arrange a loan so that you don't have to pay a penny for this education." Their pet bank gets them the government-guaranteed loan, and the student may get the junk degree, but doesn't get a job, so they don't pay the loan.” MayWholeFactsHelpingGovernmentJobsPayEconomyStudentsPromiseDegreesSellsUniversityProfitPetLoanPenniesJunkBetter JobsStudent LoanAmerican Economy Author:Michael Hudson
“Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.” HumansDoeCoursesEvilRightsFieldsDegreesSlaveryKillingHuman RightsCompareRememberedGenocideAtrocitiesArmeniansCambodia Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.” BelieveWarGroupsCollegeMembersDegreesGunMachinesKillingUniversityGasChamberCommandersCollege DegreeMachine GunsPhdsGas Chambers Author:Elie Wiesel
“Almost every yogi that appeared in the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is either somebody I have seen and met and spoken to, or someone who is in my three degrees of separation - I know the source who talks to me about it so well that I believe his story.” KnowsBelieveWellsBookStoriesThreeI BelieveSourceMetsDegreesYogaSeparationDiscontentMaxTalk To MeYogi Author:Karan Bajaj
“Although every pain has different degrees of importance, I go through all of the emotions - from crying, anger, bitterness, anxiety, etc. Feel it all. But by the end of the day, I am on my knees in prayer. The next day, I get up refreshed and begin to let it go.” FeelsDifferentEndsPainNextPrayerEmotionCryDegreesAnxietyImportanceGet UpKneesThe End Of The DayEtcBitternessNext DayLet It Go Author:Renee Lawless
“My greatest inspiration has to be a Thai lady called Kru Nam, 40, she is from an upper middle class family and degree educated who has chosen to dedicated her life to rescuing children. I met her just after she rescued 27 children, since then she has continued to rescue more children without money, influence and making connections.” ChildrenInspirationClassInfluenceMiddleMetsDegreesConnectionsChosenEducatedMiddle ClassDedicatedRescueThaiMiddle Class FamilyUpper Middle Class Author:David Batstone
“I want to clarify that one doesn't need to be a scientist or have fancy college degrees to know the truth about the health of our children, our communities, and the planet. Community members generally know far more about the health of their own communities than visiting "experts," yet that knowledge is often discredited because of another story that we tell ourselves: "real" education happens [only] in the halls of universities.” KnowsWantNeedsChildrenRealStoriesHappensCommunityCollegePlanetsMembersDegreesScientistOur ChildrenUniversityExpertsFancyHallsVisitingOur CommunityCollege DegreeReal Education Author:Annie Leonard
“I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensSpeakMediaRevolutionDegreesContemporaryQualifiedAnticipate Author:Russell Brand
“It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do.” HelpingAnimalGrowingDegreesMy FavoriteChickensFarmsAssociation Author:Paul Smith
“Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.” DoneWantedPoliticalCollegeDegreesProfessorsGraduatesPolitical ScienceCollege Professors Author:Samuel Alito
“My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.” FirstsPersonsMotherFatherGenerationsCollegeDegreesSteelJerseyFirst PersonMillsNew JerseyCollege Degree Author:Samuel Alito
“My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued to work as a teacher and a principal until she was forced to retire.Both she and my father instilled in my sister and me a deep love of learning.” MotherFatherCitiesTeacherNew YorkMastersDegreesDecadesNew York CityRetiringMy SisterPrincipalDeep LoveMarryingLove Of Learning Author:Samuel Alito
“All the kids that I grew up with, in an almost idyllic environment - I've got to tell you, it was so wonderful - they've gone on and they're doctors and Ph.D.'s and everybody has a four-year college degree. None of our parents, I think, had a four-year degree.” ThinkingYearsKidsParentGoneEnvironmentFourWonderfulCollegeGrewDegreesGrew UpDoctorsFour YearsCollege DegreeIdyllic Author:Jeff Sessions
“I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.” WorldRealSchoolDegreesVery GoodJournalismJournalistReal WorldNorthwestern Author:Garry Marshall
“I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.” PeopleWantSometimesVisionClearCollegeDegreesClear Vision Author:Phil Keoghan
“People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny.” PeopleThinkingMeanUseMightAgeCertainAsksExpressionDegreesFrightenedTibet Author:Robert Thurman
“As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.” PeoplePersonsDifficultWalksDegreesPerceptionOvercomingObstaclesAssumptionDisabilityCrutchesCerebralCerebral Palsy Author:Greg Walloch
“I didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering, producing and learning all the tricks. So now I have my producing degree and certification.” YearsSchoolThreeCoursesSpecialDegreesMusicianHigh SchoolTricksProducersThree YearsEngineering Author:Martin Garrix
“I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it. Studied it in college, got my degree in it, and never really had the guts to do it professionally. But one summer, a friend of mine was with an extras agency and asked me if I wanted to be an extra with him in a movie, and I was, like, "Sure." At lunch, the writer came up to me and asked me to audition for a role. I got it, and it sort of snowballed from there.” IfsWantedYoungRolesMinesCollegeGrewDegreesSummerGrew UpTheaterEnjoyedAgencyExtrasGutsLunchAuditions Author:Italia Ricci
“We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that's how we see the world.” WorldWayDifferentCertainOur LivesDegreesDifferent Ways Author:Krishna Das
“I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story.” KnowsEndsEnoughStoriesBigsBitsStudyDegreesPaperReactionsPassingPassingsBeing TrueCinemaRiotGarlands Author:Karina Longworth
“My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.” I CanSpeakPsychologyDegreesYogaDepthPops Author:Gary Kraftsow
“What's really appealing about women's cycling in America? If you took a poll in the women's peloton, I would bet you that 90% of the women have college degrees, and a lot of them have Masters. The women's peloton is very well educated.” IfsWellsAmericaCollegeMastersDegreesEducatedPollsCyclingWell EducatedCollege Degree Author:Kristin Armstrong
“We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.” NeedsTwoDegreesIncreaseClimateRoutesSurpassing Author:Ian Somerhalder
“[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.” CertainDegreesMovedObsessedPrivate LifeHolmesAdler Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I was accepted to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, which is a terrific Aggie school, and they had a great forestry program. But when I saw the syllabus and realized what I was going to actually have to be studying, there was a lot of science! If you want a degree in forestry, it's basically a science degree. And I just thought, "No, no, no, wait a second. Never mind!"” IfsWantMindStatesSchoolWaitingStudySawsDegreesProgramUniversityAcceptedTerrificColoradoFortsSyllabus Author:Keith Carradine
“American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.” GovernmentSocialRolesEconomicConditionsDegreesOppositesInequalityCompareArrangementsPublic LifeAmerican LifeSmall Roles Author:Tony Judt
“I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.” FirstsNightBlackEqualDegreesPercentFemalePrisonMalesUniversityLawyerJailGraduatesEngineersGrandchildrenFillingCounterpartsIllinoisGreat GrandchildrenBlack Males Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I am a Warner from God to America and the nations of the Earth by God's Permission. God is destroying America by degrees with The Forces of Nature, which you have no power against! ... The Death Angel is in America as we speak - these natural disasters are going to increase.” EarthAmericaSpeakForceNationsNaturalDegreesAngelIncreaseDisasterDestroyingPermissionForces Of NatureNatural DisasterAngel Of Death Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.” WayWantI CanDegreesCooksBowlsSwansPastaPuffPastries Author:Geena Davis
“In '32 we organized the Young Negroes' Cooperative League and had some degree of success in terms of establishing stores and certainly buying clubs in various sections of the country. I was designated as - I don't know what exactly - I believe it was director. I'm not sure what it was, but it had to do with getting out the necessary mail and all of that - organization.” KnowsBelieveCountryYoungI BelieveTermDirectorsDegreesOrganizationVariousClubsStoresLeagueNot SureOrganizedBuyingMailSectionsCooperatives Author:Ella Baker
“I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.” ThinkingSelfWholeNamesInterestWhiteCareersProductsPeriodsDegreesGenerousProjectionOrganizational Author:Ella Baker
“In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.” KnowsFirstsChildrenImportantCertainFatherTermSawsMovementMastersAmountKingsBecomingDegreesCompetitionBackgroundsLutherChairmanPrestigeBraggingAtlanta Author:Ella Baker