#school

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#beat #day #faster #figured #football

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money. ↗

— Alex Grey

#boston #doing #going #had #i

I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school. ↗

— Jimmy Griffin

#dorsey #graduated #high #high school #i

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. ↗

— Jane Harman

#associates #firms #first #fraction #graduated

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#acting school #enough #gave #go #government

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#appalled #fact #i #life #literally

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#after #alone #along #four #green

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#after #elementary #elementary school #gave #i

...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#public-school #slums #home