“I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.” LittlesImportantEnoughAbleWantedParentUnderstandingSuccessfulCollegeLuckyPursueBeing Successful Author:Allison Williams
“If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?” IfsChildrenHas BeensHelpingCareSchoolParentSuccessfulCollegeHigh SchoolChild Care Author:Lamar Alexander
“Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach” SuccessfulPlansCollegeCoachesHuntingStadiumsUnsuccessful Author:Will Rogers
“The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.” StatesUseGovernmentLeftCommunityPowerfulNumbersBehindsSuccessfulCollegeIndustryProgramInnovationWorkersMost PowerfulLeft BehindManufacturingLarge NumbersMichiganCommunity College Author:Jennifer Granholm
“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
“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.” WorldNeedsGivingYearsWellsChildrenAgeAbleSchoolParentSuccessfulStudentsCollegeNeededHabitSkillsLateLowsIntelligentComplexesPatternsHeavyPlanningBackgroundsIncomeSettingSettingsTwelveLoadParticipationDeficitAssignmentsThirteenElementary SchoolCollege StudentsLow Income Book:School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project
“I learned a lot about my parents, who were both teachers. I had known that my parents were very strongly in favor of education. I had known that they had an impact on a lot of people, but people came out of the woodwork who have said, "You know, without your father, I would never have gone to college," very successful people. And so I learned how widespread their educational evangelism really was.” PeopleKnowsSaidFatherParentKnownGoneSuccessfulTeacherCollegeImpactEducationalFavorsVery StrongSuccessful PeopleEvangelism Author:Condoleezza Rice
“If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work.” IfsWorldWantHardMotivationalSportsSuccessfulCollegeWillingDeterminedBeing SuccessfulGymClassroom Author:Robert Hughes
“There's very few of us who are able to be successful, which is why so many guys out of college can't continue the sport. It's unfortunate because there's just no financial backing. I've been very blessed with sponsors.” AbleGuySportsSuccessfulCollegeBlessedFinancialBeing SuccessfulUnfortunateSponsors Author:Jonathan Horton
“The best part about being a Blazer is the fans. The fans here are so loyal it feels like a college team with how close the fans and players are. They have such a great passion for the team that it makes it fun to be a part of and makes you want to work harder to make the team successful.” WantFeelsPassionFunSuccessfulPlayerTeamFansCollegeHard WorkHarderLoyalWork HarderGreat PassionBlazers Author:LaMarcus Aldridge
“No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.” WarStatesUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulPolicyStudentsCollegeColdUniversityCold WarMaking FriendsColleges And Universities Author:Robert M. Gates