Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.
I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.
The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.
I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It's a town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle.
There's a lot of entrepreneurs out here who are in school, who just don't know what's next, or can't figure out what direction they should go in. And me graduating motivates them.
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
I left school my senior year to do a play at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Then while I was doing a play, I auditioned for Juilliard. I got in over the summer, and they told me, 'You have to graduate high school to come here. You don't need the SATs, but you do need to graduate high school.' I finished over the summer through correspondence.
All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
I started traveling, performing, doing photo shoots and working on new music. At the same time, I was juggling homework and trying not to miss out on too many experiences during my junior and senior years - like prom and graduation.
Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.
I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.
My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak.
The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.
