Hiram Rhodes Revels Quotes

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

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

I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.

Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.

I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

I wanted to do a degree in something I was interested in before going into acting.