“When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.” FirstsStillsSchoolActingTheaterGraduatesHoustonGraduate SchoolUndergraduate Author:Jim Parsons
“Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.” FirstsSchoolFirst TimeUniversityCaliforniaBossSouthernGraduatesAssociatesDeanGraduate SchoolSouthern California Author:Ruth Simmons
“You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.” PeopleWorldWantSchoolForgetFoundationStartingGraduatesChefStarting PointGraduate School Author:Roy Yamaguchi
“In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.” WaySchoolGraduatesGraduate School Author:Christopher Bollen
“Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.” SchoolFormArtistTalkingMagazinesGraduatesGreat WritersGraduate School Author:Christopher Bollen
“When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.” BigsSchoolCompanySkyResearchBlueMathConsumersGraduatesLabsBlue SkyGraduate SchoolBig Companies Author:Sandra Lerner
“The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that.” IfsWantStatesSchoolLastsPurposeChoicesCoursesWonderfulHugeEconomicsSpendingRationalAdvertisingConsumersCorporateGraduatesGraduate School Author:Noam Chomsky
“All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.” KnowsNeedsSchoolMountainSandSundayGraduatesKindergartenGraduate SchoolSunday School Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.” MenMayHas BeensStillsTodaySchoolGivenGoneHonorEthicsProfessorsGraduatesElites1960sScholarshipReservedYaleGraduate SchoolWasps Author:Camille Paglia
“I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.” MenSchoolYoungMotherCultureFatherLanguageSecretCollegeMetsYoung ManFascinatedGraduatesBusinessmanTokyoGraduate SchoolGeisha Author:Arthur Golden
“Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.” SchoolNumbersWonderfulCollegeHigh SchoolGraduatesRamaGraduate SchoolCollege Graduates Author:Frederick Lenz
“In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.” MatterSchoolSpiritStudyParticularPoetEvolutionGraduatesRamaGraduate SchoolTheodoreDissertation Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.” SchoolPracticeStudentsMastersGraduatesGraduate SchoolZen Master Author:Frederick Lenz
“Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.” ChildrenHas BeensRealPhilosophySchoolTogetherDifficultPsychologyRevolutionGraduatesGraduate SchoolDevelopmentalScientific Revolution Author:Alison Gopnik
“Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.” NeedsFeelsWellsI CanSchoolCan DoActingSituationHonorDramaTrainingFeel GoodGraduatesI Can Do ItGraduate SchoolI Feel Good Author:Andrea Anders
“I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.” IfsImportantCharacterSchoolNovelElementsDistinctionPlotGossipGraduatesSpeculationScholarshipGraduate SchoolSyphilis Book:Second words: selected critical prose Source: Second words: selected critical prose
“I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '” BookSchoolReadingNovelTheoryPlotGraduatesPeterBrooksGraduate SchoolLiterary Theory Author:Lev Grossman
“I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.” PeopleYearsSchoolThreeLiteratureCollegeGrewGrew UpOddThree YearsGraduatesHarvardYaleGraduate SchoolComparative Literature Author:Lev Grossman
“Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.” IfsSchoolFilmLawBrotherAnxietyMy BrotherServingVietnamGraduatesExecutionMarineAttendingLaw SchoolGraduate School Author:Peter Guber