One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
Angela Duckworth
SchoolChallengesHigh SchoolTalking
And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
George J. Mitchell
TimeJusticeSchoolLawEvening
I always wanted to be a filmmaker, but I started acting when I was 9 years old. I looked a certain part that I wasn't, really. I played, you know, a high school jock with a lot of attitude or a spoiled rich kid, and I was neither of those things. I was from a very working-class family in Van Nuys.
Steve Antin
FamilyAttitudeSchoolHigh School
When I got to be, like, in high school and stuff, I sort of was drawn to that feeling of feeling uncomfortable in my skin and being confused by human beings, like, just constantly confused.
David Harbour
SchoolHigh SchoolConfusedSkin
Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
Aaron Lazar
MusicTeacherBestSchoolYearLegs
I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy... And being an actor, I've been able to use it quite a bit.
Tom Wlaschiha
SchoolThoughtLearnActorNeverUp
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
Mark Zuckerberg
SchoolCollegeHigh SchoolLearnYou
I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
SchoolGraduate SchoolStartedGot
In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense - I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.
Jesse Plemons
SchoolHigh SchoolYearYouActing
I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.
Mike Birbiglia
SchoolCollegeShortCareerLost
I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.
King Bach
BeginningSchoolPeopleResolution
I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
Sara Canning
GoodSchoolStudentProductionNerdy
Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.
John Kline
FocusAchievementSchoolChildLeft
After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum.
Hilary Mason
JobSchoolValueResearchSkills
I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
Mia Hamm
SchoolBasketballHigh SchoolYear
In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.
Emily Kuroda
SchoolSaidShyTalkGrammarStill
I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country.
Steve Scalise
SchoolCityAmericaCountryNew
In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
GoodSchoolDoingYouGoBrilliant
I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.
Barry Bonds
SchoolBaseballBackFindPlaceGo
Before 'Lost Boy,' I was singing, doing six-second covers on Vine, working part-time and in school, but music was always my true love.
Ruth B
LoveMusicTrue LoveSchoolSinging
I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.
Lennie James
GodSchoolLondonOnlySouthSport
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
Wilbur Smith
GreatFoodSchoolParentsMeGold
If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was.
John Galliano
SchoolParentsBelieveWayRight
The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.
Luke Ford
GreatSchoolMeActingTeachLittle
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about School