Quote by James Tobin
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserv

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. – James Tobin

Other quotes by James Tobin

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. – James Tobin

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teacher
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Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. – James Tobin

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Graduation
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Learning
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We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. – Plato

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Learning

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified. – Christina Ricci

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Learning

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera. – Thomas Jane

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Learning

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. – S. J. Perelman

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Learning

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Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation – the result of which is impossible to predict. – Malcolm Mclaren

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design

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. – Aristotle

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Humor

Todays students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. – Jesse Jackson

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Attitude

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. – William Frederick Book

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Adaptability