Harvard Quotes

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Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.

Smokin weed on the star projectors, I guess we'll never know what Harvard gets us

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

But just because a person goes to Harvard doesn't mean he's balanced when he graduates, and just because a dog knows how to obey doesn't mean he's balanced, either.

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

I couldn't have gotten into Harvard with a crowbar.

Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.