Graham Potter Quotes

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

Everyone in my family went to college. So I went for a year to appease people, in a way. I didn't really see that being my path, but I did want to be sure, as well, about that. When I was, that's when I left.

I've had the career experience. I've had the experience of taking care of myself. I'm going to college because I genuinely want to learn.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

When I was 24, I went back to the academic life and did a degree in film and television at Brunel University.

I have promised my mum that I am going to get a degree even if I turn 50.

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.

My parents’ biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn’t fathom me acting for the rest of my life.

I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.

My major regret in life is not going to university, though not for the qualification I would have gained. People I know who went there have a working method where they sit down and get something done; they know how to start and get on with things. I will do anything to avoid getting on with stuff.

I thought I was gonna get a doctorate in composition or be a composer and be at a university for the rest of my life, mostly because my parents are academics, and that was the logical thing to do.

I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of twenty-two, and still couldn't answer the question 'What do you want to do with your life?'

I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.

When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.

I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'

I was hellbent on going to drama school, but my mother, rightly, panicked and persuaded me to go to university on the grounds that a degree would be 'something to fall back on.' Whilst at college, I realised I wasn't good enough or robust enough to be an actress.

I'm really proud of what we are building at the University of Houston, and hope I spend the rest of my career here.

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.

I wasn't given a scholarship out of high school, and that allowed me to learn what hard work was early on.

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.