Degree Quotes - page 10

Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect wishes to arrange - intuition wishes to accept. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. View quote
Jude Deveraux
My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too. View quote
Amy Bloom
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. View quote
Elizabeth Blackwell
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. View quote
Jean-Georges Noverre
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes. View quote
Caroline Knapp
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera. View quote
Alton Brown
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school. View quote
Kathy Reichs
You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being. View quote
Lawrence LeShan
The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving. (Edwin Louis Cole)
Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. View quote
Michael Fox
I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia. View quote
Joanne Harris
I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. View quote
Shane Black
Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in. View quote
James Wan
The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree. View quote
Paul Volcker
Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. View quote
Henry James Sumner Maine
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. View quote
Paul de Man
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement. View quote
Marsha M. Linehan
I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal. (Terry Southern)
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. View quote
G. Stanley Hall
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. View quote
Twyla Tharp
Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn't exactly fill me with confidence. View quote
Tamsin Greig
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does. View quote
Ben Whishaw