I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.
When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.
The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.