“I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.” JobsThreeMy OwnStudentsCollegePaidLoanStudent LoanPaid Off Author:Jessica Seinfeld
“Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.” RealDreamAbleGoalMy OwnStudentsInternationalLawyerSingersGraduatesOwn BusinessFamous Singer Author:Charice Pempengco
“As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful.” TodayRememberMy OwnStudentsTheoryUniversityProfessorsDeniedGraduatesEvidentSupporterDistinguishedAustralianAmusingVisitingMadmenPropheticColumbiaPitifulGraduate StudentsContinentalDerisionDriftersColumbia University Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.” KindCertainLiteratureMy OwnStudentsGeniusBed Author:Allen Ginsberg
“My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.” DoeReasonCareStuffMy OwnStudentsDon't CareGenreI Don't CarePeculiarGuidelines Author:George A. Romero
“I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”” PeopleSchoolYoungMy OwnTalkingStudentsSkillsProgramI RealizedMotivatedInstructorsLife Or DeathCompetenciesGed Author:Eric Thomas
“Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.” ArtSelfMomentsSchoolMy OwnDesignStudentsSelf ConfidenceArt Design Author:Tim Gunn
“When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.” UseFeltMy OwnResponsibilityTeachingStudentsConversationRaisesBarsPhrasesEngagedClassroomVocabularyCritiqueRaising The Bar Author:Tim Gunn
“From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsWantedUsedMy OwnCareersTeamStudentsInvolvedProjectsAdvantageEntrepreneurExcitedMissionsCoreMagazinesEnthusiasmSecureInterviewsFedsNew ThingsVentureRestlessGet InvolvedPublicityInexperienceTrying New ThingsNew ProjectsNewcomers Author:Richard Branson