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Katherine Herzog studies Catalysis, Solar Energy and Green Chemical Synthesis at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program

Katherine Herzog studies Catalysis, Solar Energy and Green Chemical Synthesis at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program

Jul 19, 2022 | News

Katherine Herzog reports on her experiences at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars program where she is studying Catalysis, Solar Energy and Green Chemical Synthesis.

Sydney Davis studies Creative Writing at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio

Sydney Davis studies Creative Writing at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio

Jul 18, 2022 | News

Sydney Davis reports on her experiences at the Iowa Young Writers’ Institute, where she is enrolled in Creative Writing this summer.

Sophie White works toward her BFA at Southeast Missouri State University.

Sophie White works toward her BFA at Southeast Missouri State University.

Jul 18, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

  GFF Alumnus Sophie White is currently working toward her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Southeast Missouri State University, and just finished her first year of college. As a 2020 GFF scholarship recipient, Sophie attended Animation and Video Projects, plus...
GFF Alumnus Shruti Kumar begins her OB/GYN internship at Jefferson Abington Hospital in Pennsylvania.

GFF Alumnus Shruti Kumar begins her OB/GYN internship at Jefferson Abington Hospital in Pennsylvania.

Jul 10, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

We are proud to announce that Shruti Kumar, GFF 2014 Alumnus, has graduated from the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine, and has been accepted to complete her internship at Jefferson Abington Hospital in Pennsylvania.

Yoonseo Jung will perform at Carnegie Hall in April 2023!

Yoonseo Jung will perform at Carnegie Hall in April 2023!

Jul 8, 2022 | Where Are They Now? — 2022

We just learned that Yoonseo Jung will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City on April 9, 2023. Yoonseo Jung recently completed a GFF sponsored course, Fundamentals of Augmented Reality, at Stanford University.

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“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March
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