#scholars

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#cooking #down #ended #full #go

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#became #general #great #great love #heart

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#applied #asked #boston #consulting #encouraged

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#including #interests #liberty #over #precedence

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#speech #men

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. ↗

— Xun Zi

#men #merely #petty #public-spirited #scholars

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #badly #based #because

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#known #most #our #outside #scholars

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#humblest #nature #painter #scholar #scholars

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#difference #fuzzy #merely #other #reasoning