Tod Machover Quotes

I didn't finish college, and I was very sad about that because I don't think I gave myself a chance to learn, to prove to myself that I could learn.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

I've always said I didn't want to coach. But I can't coach in college because I don't have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.

I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.

Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I definitely made the wrong choices. I left Holland too early, I probably should've stayed one more year for my development, but these things happen.

If there was something that I took an interest in that I'd go to college to learn about, I'd go.

I went to basic school for 10 years, and then I went to college.

I didn't have the opportunity to finish college and I was quite sad about that.

You can always go to uni later on in life. There's no set way. If you are at uni, work hard. Strive for your best.

I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.

I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.

I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right ones for any given situation. So, there's no point ever of kind of regretting something because you can't properly remember the exact circumstances in which you were playing out this particular scene. You have to believe in your intuition and your instinct at that moment.

I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts on some occasions when I didn't and I wish I had listened to better advice when I didn't. But overall, I have to look at the glass as half full and acknowledge that I am all of the moments of my life, the good and the not so good.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.

I didn't go to college. I got tired of it. I didn't want to take ballroom dance taught by a former drill sergeant in the WACs. I didn't like flunking speech, me, flunking speech. But I realized sometime later, okay, I don't have a piece of paper that says I've been educated, so I'm gonna have to be able to demonstrate that I'm educated. So I began self-teaching. It was all related to desire.