Maya Lin Quotes

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

I certainly, to this day, believe I did everything I needed to do to get my degree.

If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.

I went to Harvard College, grew up in Boston, and went to high school in Boston.

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

Having an education is invaluable.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.