Adam Neumann Quotes

When I got to college I finally got a job.

I loved the college experience of studying.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got to do my own thing.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

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.

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

I came out of my shell in college.

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

I went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties.

I was only 20, 21. I was basically going to college to get me out of the ghetto. A friend suggested I try stand-up.

I think people who don't go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it's the shared life experience that helps you grow.

I don't want to be super serious but I want to have fun with my platform. I want to touch people, I want to be relatable and let girls know that you can go to college and still pursue what you want after that.

When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.

After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in particular. At age 23, I drew my first comic.

About a year after I retired from playing, I decided that I wanted to getback to college, where I had the greatest time of my life, and to get involved with college football.

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.