At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important. — Queen Rania of Jordan
Nothing endures but personal qualities. — Walt Whitman
Longevity conquers scandal every time. — Shelby Foote
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation. — Ashton Kutcher
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. — Lysander Spooner
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. — Horace Greeley
Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good. — Ingvar Kamprad
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. — Plautus
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. — Plato
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure. — Seneca
To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands. — George Soros
Short Tenure Quotes
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. — Bill Gates
It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy. — Luis Sepúlveda
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. — Charles Dudley Warner
I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday. — Darren Criss
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated. — Wendell Phillips
These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure. — Andrew Bogut
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago. — Nick Offerman
Amanda is now a tenure-track professor at Yale. — Ken Ono
Work Tenure Quotes
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. — Jack Welch
The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant. Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic. Or get tenure. Or get laid. — Gerald Stern
Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it, eliminate tenure, and define the working conditions of faculty to something resembling the labor practices of Walmart workers. — Henry Giroux
The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with and to work within the tenets of orthodox theory. — Paul Ormerod
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review. — Daniel Drezner
I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. — John Green
I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. — Paul Lansky
After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names. — Barack Obama
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. — Hubert Humphrey
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General. — Dick Thornburgh
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government. — William Weld
But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program. — Antonio Villaraigosa
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. — Eisaku Sato
As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being; but the possession of land in nondependent tenure is now the material basis for bearing of arms. — J. G. A. Pocock
The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day. — Joseph Story
When I came to Harvard, there were no tenured women except one, who was in a chair reserved for a woman. It's still an uphill battle, and I encountered great sexism in parts of my career, but I have to say that things are a lot better than they used to be. There are many women today doing wonderful work all over the academy. — Martha C. Nussbaum
I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life. — Alexander McCall Smith
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. — Kathleen Parker
There are people who oppose a federal Constitutional amendment because they think that the law of family should be made by the states. I can see a legitimate argument there. I think it's mistaken, however, because the federal government, through the decisions of life-tenured federal judges, has already taken over that area. — Dallin H. Oaks
I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school. — Robert Evans
At the end of the day, when you are in the front office, your tenure is dictated by the people surrounding you. — Bill Goldberg
Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team player who has only cared about winning. He has also been a fine example both on and off the field over his long tenure as a Yankee. It has been a real pleasure to manage him and play alongside him. — Joe Girardi
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure. — Bernie Sanders
It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why the Constitution wisely gave us life tenure. They can talk about us, but they can't remove us. — Alex Kozinski
Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different. — Barack Obama
If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure. — Christopher West
Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement. — Marc Singer
It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of getting cut off. Scholars should write, at least sometimes, for the general public. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. — Charles Lamb
Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. — George Sterling
The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled. — Douglas MacArthur
Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years. — Thomas Sowell
Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends. — Sharon Shinn
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. — Walter Lippmann
In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled. — Julian Assange
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it. — Anthony Eden
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy. — Norman Finkelstein
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny. — Aristotle
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it. — Alexander Hamilton
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. — Henry David Thoreau
This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research. — Neal Stephenson
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom. — James E. Rogers
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