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Quotes About Credentials

Bruno Bettelheim, who might have had more influence if he weren't, as Dr. Spock himself noted, a "[v]ery frightening" figure who "scared the hell out of people." A Holocaust survivor with a heavy accent, a stern manner, and some outlandish ideas, Bettelheim gave people the creeps, and after his suicide in 1990, we'd learn there was good reason: his credentials were faked
~ Jennifer Traig
She has never liked me because I don't have a proper degree. Feral librarians, they call us, as in just wandered out of the woods.
~ Jenny Offill
I save him my diatribe about people with bullshit EdDs and PsyDs that I've run into in academia who couldn't pass a fifth-grade science exam all insisting that they be addressed with the same reverence as the head of oncology at a research hospital.
~ Andrew Mayne
Chequers and No. 10 enjoyed surprisingly haphazard security against assassination and terrorism. John Martin recalled that there was a competition in the Foreign Office to see who could get into Downing Street with the least adequate credentials. A railway season ticket and golf club membership card were runners-up, but 'finally the prize went to a man who walked confidently through the entrance holding out a slice of cake.
~ Andrew Roberts
I'm not gonna start bragging about my credentials, but I love jiu-jitsu and I've been on the mat awhile, and I'm a jedi and whatnot.
~ Matt Serra
I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.
~ David Irving
When I worked in the White House in the 1970s and '80s, I was often stopped within the White House by agents checking my credentials. They were very observant and would stop anyone they didn't recognize.
~ Bob Beckel
I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.
~ Pierce Brosnan
The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.
~ Trish Regan
Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.
~ Harper Reed
virtue-signalling is all about boasting,' reported Phillips. 'It flaunts the signaller's credentials as a morally virtuous person. It screams, "Me! Me! Me!
~ Robert Lacey
In fact, none of us knows how he ever managed to get his LLB in the first place. Maybe they're putting law degrees in cornflakes boxes these days.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection,Send my credentials to the house of detention.
~ Jim Morrison
We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers. The bomb opens like a shoebox. And the child? The child is certainly not yawning. And the woman? The woman is bathing her heart. It has been torn out of her and as a last act she is rinsing it off in the river. This is the death market. America, where are your credentials?
~ Anne Sexton
Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.
~ Peter Thiel
I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.
~ Bart Stupak
With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
~ Tavi Gevinson
A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.
~ Solomon Short
For many people, "advice from experts" is part of a larger strategy of domination by the new ruling class—the meritocrats. All advanced countries are now run by a meritocracy. Schools admit applicants based largely on their test scores, and companies hire and promote people based mostly on credentials of one sort or another.
~ Fareed Zakaria
One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question.
~ Thabo Mbeki
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
~ Neil Simon
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.
~ Noam Chomsky
Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus test, white males will continue to be the top choice on any list, if the interviewer is also a white male.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
no importarían las "credenciales democráticas" del intérprete si cualquiera de nosotros tendiera a leer el derecho del mismo modo.
~ Roberto Gargarella