Word: youã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that you??re leaving for the outside world, I think it’s time to bring entitlement back. While you were here, it was silly to project that you were a special snowflake. Now, you??re done here. And you have done something important and different that makes you stand out. So you should feel a little entitled to walk out into the world with a quiet confidence that things will work out for you and that you will be able to make a difference...
...Beware of the trappings of entitlement, which continue whether the entitlement is justified or not. Everywhere you go, people will simultaneously expect great things from you and be ready to knock you down. The more you flaunt that you??re there to change the world, and that you are credentialed to do so because of your fine Cambridge alma mater, the more people will try to put you in your place. Rely on your personal strengths, not on your credentials. They’ve both been earned in your four years here, but the former will serve...
...Peter Sellars would walk into the dining hall, look around, and go up to someone he’d never met and say, ‘You??d make a GREAT Lady Macbeth,’” Kiely wrote in a recent e-mail. “People who NEVER were on stage got on stage! The whole place was a kind of stage...
...season the following fall,” Reardon says. “We had to play sold-out for the Yale game, and the year before the seats weren’t in. I told the contractor, ‘Your reputation’s on the line now, you??re going to be in the headlines if you don’t get it done.’ But we got it done...
...generation know). Life—student life—is not always about looking to be satisfied, looking to be made happy, perpetually evaluating your institution and giving it a good, mediocre, or bad mark. It is about seizing every bit of extravagance that has been made available to you??and being happy, just being happy...