“I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.” ImportantDreamKidsWantedSchoolMinesIndustryDegreesMusicianPrioritiesMassiveMusic Industry Author:Emeli Sande
“I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.” WorldWantedSchoolSidesNaturalIndustryResponsibleAdvertisingFirmDepartmentMusic IndustryKnackNew Business Author:Adam Kluger
“Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.” PeopleWantGovernmentSchoolIndustryEasierNormalScalesWho We AreProfitableFadingMarketersFading Away Author:Seth Godin
“You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.” SchoolIndustryDramaConnectionsRoutes Author:Kaya Scodelario
“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.” YearsMadeSchoolGamesEasyEducationWonderFocusTeacherIndustryDollarsProfitEducationalSurfaceAidsBillionsCardsVisualsTapeFlashLots Of MoneyTextbooksManualsAudioCassettesAudio Visual Book:Marva Collins Way Source: Marva Collins Way
“Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.” PeopleWellsHardSchoolFilmDealsFiguresIndustryConstantPreparedHandleParanoidHard ThingsFilm IndustryVigilance Author:Megan Fox
“It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.” PeopleWorldWantSaidRealHardSchoolJobsLife IsOpportunityNamesDealsSuccessfulRecordsCuttingCollegeIndustryAdvantageTablesChecksLabelsBeing SuccessfulReal WorldMusic IndustryLife Is HardColumbiaTrue YouRecord Labels Author:Kanye West
“This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.” MeanPersonsShowsSchoolFunnyPlansPolicyIndustryMachinesAdministrationConsumersParksGood TimesAviationPilotsOxygenNewtonAirlineWayneNational ParksSnuffYellowstoneVending MachinesRefillsAirline Industry Author:Dave Barry
“People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are sponsored curricula by food companies, they're also in our schools with logos sponsoring sports teams.” PeopleChildrenSchoolSportsRealizingCompanyTeamIndustryAspectOur ChildrenIncludingLogosSports TeamFood Industry Author:Anna Lappe
“We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.” SchoolCoursesChallengesInspiringPayTeachTeacherStudentsWillingIndustryHigh SchoolRewardsMathAlternativesMath And ScienceScience Teacher Author:Mark Kennedy
“The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.” KnowsWorldWayWantStillsImportantWarWould BeWantedSchoolGirlCausesIndustryImportant ThingsDinnerBest WayUselessWar Of The WorldsValleysPrincipalFifteenWorld War One Book:The secret world of the Irish male Source: The secret world of the Irish male
“Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.” ArtKidsSchoolActingCuttingIndustryDramaToughLots Of Money Author:Phil Daniels
“It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.” PeopleYearsEyeSchoolFilmGrowsGrowing UpFrontsIndustryDirectorsSixAcceptedFranceFilmmakerInitiativeFilm School Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that.” YearsArtEyeSchoolFilmStudyIndustryDramaPerformingMartial ArtsFilm IndustryMuch LovePerforming Arts Author:Scott Adkins
“I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.” PeopleWorldFeelsArtEnoughSchoolTermBreakSpecialStudentsIndustryLuckyCastsContemporaryProfessorsGraduatesArt WorldContemporary ArtGraduate StudentsAlma Mater Author:Kalup Linzy
“Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.” WorldRunningSchoolPresidentFireImagineMilitaryPositionCommunicationIndustryOrganizationTradePropertyConservativeMedicalIncomeBudgetsSpokesMinimumSenatorsFundingElectricalExperimentationWithdrawalWorld TradeSocializingValuationMilitary BudgetWorld Trade Organization Author:Rick Perlstein
“The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.” KnowsFirstsWellsSchoolResponsibilityIndustryTrainingFunctionAssumingPreparationTaking ResponsibilityAbsolutely Nothing Author:Peter Drucker
“I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.” MeanWantedSchoolBitsHavensIndustryHigh SchoolDenyNurseGenesChefBugsMusic IndustryVetsWhere You Come Author:Hillary Scott
“I think that people should find a niche that will work. I have friends growing up who sat around playing video games for hours after school, and now they work for the video game industry. People need to find a niche so it doesn't feel like a job anymore. When I'm working on the "Lights Out" brand, it's fun. It's not work.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsShouldLightSchoolJobsGamesFunHoursGrowing UpGrowingIndustryVideoBrandsSatNicheAfter SchoolPlaying Video GamesFriends Growing Up Author:Shawne Merriman
“I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.” ThinkingDifferentFactsProblemWould BeSchoolCertainSuccessfulIndustryBandApproachLabelsBeing SuccessfulMusic IndustryTubesOld School Author:Emily Haines
“I never ever played the lead role in a play, except at school. I guess the industry that we're in, boys that look like me don't get the lead role.” LooksPlaySchoolBoysRolesIndustryLike Me Author:Mark Indelicato