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" To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation – head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next – that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make. " - Atul Gawande

" If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I’d send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents. " - Anthony Horowitz

" Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. " - Steven Chu

" Going to UCLA was probably one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. " - Jennifer Brady

" Training isn’t the same as playing. " - Ernesto Valverde

" I positively encourage time abroad to anybody. It’s worth taking the time to suss out which countries in the world are well funded for your subject and look for opportunities there. " - Jocelyn Bell Burnell

" Students like my son, who has a place at university which is dependent on getting the right grades, must place his fate in the hands of two groups of people: teachers and a faceless team at Ofqual, the exam regulator. " - Susanna Reid

" My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills. " - Johan Cruyff

" Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods. " - Andrew Wiles

" I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a day job at Universal publicity department, then moved over to Disney publicity department. So I had this day job, and at night I would study music. " - Michael Giacchino