Graduation Quotes - Page 6

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.

Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.

Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.