I was hired for a really ...

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.
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

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
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A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
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Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?
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I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
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I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.
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I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.
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My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.
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