{"quotes":[{"text":"Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.","author":"Luis W. Alvarez","tags":["graduate","graduate-student","phd","physics","science"],"id":2508,"author_id":"Luis+W.+Alvarez"},{"text":"I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.","author":"Anne Lamott","tags":["college","graduate","forgot "],"id":56155,"author_id":"Anne+Lamott"},{"text":"For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["adult","childhood","curtain","graduate","next"],"id":59519,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["1st","1st-day","attempt","chance","college","day-one","dont-give-up","endurance","endure","first","first-attempt","first-day","food-for-thought","graduate","israelmore-ayivor","keep-it-up","master","masters-degree","never-give-up","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","school","time","time-tells"],"id":73736,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.","author":"Jim Carrey","tags":["2014","7-7","77","acceptance","actor","actors","address","allow","be-you","be-yourself","commencement-address","commencement-speech","famous-people","glory","graduate","graduation","hide","hiding","inspirational","inspiring","jim-carey","jim-carrey","light","maharishi","maharishi-university","mum","pleaser","pleasing","pleasing-others","risk","shine","shine-bright","shine-on","shine-your-light"],"id":104337,"author_id":"Jim+Carrey"},{"text":"I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.","author":"Gayle Forman","tags":["as","college","credits","grade-conscious","grades","graduate","high-school","honor-roll","honors","life","school","student","teacher"],"id":127615,"author_id":"Gayle+Forman"},{"text":"...Your zeal to face life's rough and tumble, your ardor to accept the responsibilities of adulthood is hardly congruent with the aspirations of most graduate students...' He shook his head of disagreeable hair. 'I need not tell you,' he deplored, sinking to paralipsis, 'that there resides in almost every one of 'em the unconscious desire not to grow up. For once the academic goal is attained and the doctorate irradicably abbreviated after the name, the problem of facing the world is confronted. The subtlest, most unremitting drive of the student is his unconscious proclivity to postpone the acceptance of responsibility as long as possible.","author":"Millard Kaufman","tags":["graduate","page-49","school","student"],"id":153507,"author_id":"Millard+Kaufman"},{"text":"Some people graduate on time. Some others graduate at the right time. No matter about the time you graduations, you have to take responsibility to finish your college when you choose to start it. Not for your parents, not for your friends, but for you. When you graduate, you'll be at the higher lever than your life before. Remember, you don't have to be smarter, all you have to do is be the work harder than others.","author":"Nunki Artura","tags":["college","graduate","graduation"],"id":158560,"author_id":"Nunki+Artura"},{"text":"Look at yourself on the day that you graduated from college, then look at yourself today. I did that recently and it was like, 'Yikes! What the hell happened?","author":"David Sedaris","tags":["future","graduate"],"id":200449,"author_id":"David+Sedaris"},{"text":"People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride, eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs “prides” scholars. Get rusticated now!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["blow-your-own-trumpet","college","degree","diploma","drop-out","enroll","enrollment","fail","failing","failure","fall","falling","food-for-thought","graduate","higher-national-diploma","hnd","humble","humble-yourself","humbleness","humility","israelmore-ayivor","obey-people","people","pride","proud","rusticate","school","schools","university"],"id":216986,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}