Degrees Quotes

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

We boil at different degrees.

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.