Robert J. Fisher Quotes

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.

I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught, nor much mathematics. So I didn't know what academia was all about until I got to college.

I went to one year of college. I only went to class twice a quarter to pass the tests. I thought it was a waste of time.

On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.

My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much.

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.