Harvard Quotes

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't 'light and nice,' it's light and truth.

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now.

The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town.

Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder

A person who values their goals actually values their achievements.

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.

You need to choose your association according to your vision.

You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.

When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.

Organizations can’t change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.