"I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful."

-- Shia LaBeouf

#Mistake Quotes #Successful Quotes #College Quotes

“Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.”
“It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.”
“[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity”
“I learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as I say those words, there are so many things individually we can do to reduce - we don't need to consume as much as we are consuming. Reduce. And by reusing, we can reuse a lot of things we just throw into the dumpsite. And reduce the production. The more we reuse, the more we can reduce.”
“Mathematicians are born, not made.”
“Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.”
“#3 pencils and quadrille pads.”
“Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.”

Source : John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.173

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