“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
“There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.” ThinkingKnowsWayYearsRealThreeGamesStudentsBaseballGrandmotherThree YearsEightyPubertyThree Year Olds Author:Alvin Dark
“Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.” IfsThinkingWantThreeSpeakResponsibilityStudentsBenefitsThree Times Author:Dogen
“I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.” KindFeelingsSchoolMotherThreeBehindsClassTroubleStudentsCollegeHugeMomAmountHigh SchoolGradesSingle MomThree Sisters Author:Louis C. K.
“For students to understand what the future of journalism is going to be, they're going to have to invent it. It's a big idea. We don't know what journalism is going to look like in the next three years, let alone the next 10 years.” KnowsYearsLooksIdeasBigsThreeNextStudentsJournalismThree YearsBig Ideas Author:Steve Blank
“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?” WantGivingDifferentSchoolJobsChoicesThreeAsksGivenSupportEconomyWeekSubjectsStudentsHigh SchoolTestsTwentiesSpendingRidiculousScoreGraduatesConsideringProbabilitySalaryProjectionDifferent JobsAllocationHigh School StudentsTest Scores Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.” IfsKnowsWantGivingShouldThreeStudentsFourthWant Him Author:Confucius
“If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.” IfsBelievePersonsUniverseThreeForceStudentsTaughtSmartDoctorsCreatorPhysicsInvisibleIdioticPseudoscienceMeds Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.” PeopleKnowsThreeStudentsEnglandUniversityProfessorsJuniorsClerks Author:John Maynard Keynes