Post Graduate Degree Quotes & Sayings

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me. — Quincy Jones

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.' — Nick Park

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college. — Janet Fitch

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend? — Adam Sandler

I studied philosophy in college and didn't realize until my senior year that no one would pay me to philosophize when I graduated. My frantic search for a "post-graduation plan" led me to law school mostly because other graduate programs required you to know something about your field of study to enroll; law schools, it seemed, didn't require you to know anything. At Harvard, I could study law while pursuing a graduate degree in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, which appealed to me. — Bryan Stevenson

I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that, in the developing world, the key is not the kind of government - communist, capitalist, democratic, dictatorial - but the degree of government. That absence of government is what we are watching these days, from Libya to Iraq to Syria.
("Why they still hate us, 13 years later," Washington Post, 09/05/2014) — Fareed Zakaria

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet. — Ai Yazawa

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley. — Victor Hugo