Douglass North Quotes

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

There's something about Warren Wilson. You can gain a lot of very important things and skills that you carry over into whatever you decide to do.

Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

I'm interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

I studied B.Sc electronics to be an engineer and later did masters in communication and advertising. I loved engineering for what it could accomplish to make our lives easier. But, I realised that it was not my passion.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.