Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

College gave me validation: I gained a lot of confidence, just from once or twice saying something in class and the professor saying, 'Great idea.' That experience has certainly helped me say to a director, 'Actually, I think my idea is at least worth talking about.'

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

It is in college that one gathers confidence as the mind is open to ideologies.

Having an education is invaluable.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

The value of a good education has never left me.

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

I need to learn to be more assertive.

My voice is stronger today than ever.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.

I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.

I think college has helped me.

I think education is something that is very important no matter what you are doing. It makes you feel secure, independent, and helps you build confidence in yourself. It grooms your whole personality. So if it starts from the basic level; if the basic education that a girl and a boy receive is the same, I think a lot will change.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.