The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle.
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love. . . the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
Knowledge is power.
There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.
Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.
Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.