Degree Quotes

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

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

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.