Education Requirements Quotes

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

Before I turned 18, I had all these rules. Like, I could only work ten hours a day, and I had to go to school.

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

There aren't a lot of entertainment-based mediums, the visual or recorded mediums, that empower the audience to go off the next day and create it themselves. You can't watch a movie or a show and the next day say, 'I want to make that.' You have to go to school.

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.

Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests.

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

If any applicant has 4 years of high school mathematics and 2 years of college mathematics, hire him. We can always train him for many things we need.

We should not go to a baseball rule. If a kid goes to college and, after a year or two, wants to go to the NBA and is good enough - and he grew, he got bigger, he got more confidence - let him go. Why would you now force a kid to go two years?

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.