Famous Quotes & Sayings

Today's good-paying jobs demand not only strong academic skills, but also technical training and computer proficiency, ... While our area offers world-class four-year and advanced degrees, we fall far short when it comes to teaching basic job skills and preparing our young people to deal with new and emerging technologies.

Chuck D.

When I first started the Project, I could not have expected so much to be accomplished in such a short time. None of my concerns about giving money to an academic institution came true. They've done high quality work with real-world relevance.

When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them - Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.

We need to upgrade Wyoming's academic standards and reputation. The Hathaway scholarship has put us on a road to be the best and the first in education.

We have kids out there who may not necessarily be at the top of the academic scale, but they are making positive contributions in many other ways, too.

George Russell

We've been fortunate this year in that our budget situation is not as grim as many other school districts around the state. We're actually looking pretty good and putting some additional resources into supporting literacy and academic achievement, for kids.

Hans Frank

In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.

Hans Frank

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students' academic careers and, most certainly, barometers of their future employment prospects. Given the president's emphasis in the State of the Union on the importance of developing math and science skills in America's students in order to keep America competitive globally, we do not see how eliminating federal education technology funding advances his global competitiveness agenda or helps our students.

We can be involved in the Citizens' Fire Academy or go into schools to teach children. Anything that has to do with life safety.

Greg Graffin

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.

Phil Davis

We have also been able to draw in a number of our very talented Academy players to the first team squad, and I feel the squad has a really good balance to it now.

Raquel Welch

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

Rodney Brooks

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

We were so excited backstage. Yeah, it did feel kind of like Academy Awards night.

We have a great program for young people that teaches them a lot about aviation and also provides scholarship opportunities, particularly for students who plan to enter the Air Force or attend the U.S. Air Force Academy after graduation.

Rachel Tucker

'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the Royal Academy and loved it.

We've made great strides in raising academic achievement during the past seven years. I am especially proud that Washington led the nation last year in reading scores for African-American fourth graders. African-American eighth graders in Washington scored better in math than in all but three states. We are closing the achievement gap.

We have been waiting to get back to the regional finals for three years. Jordan Cook (6-10 Hampden Academy center) is a game changer and changes teams with his defense and is pretty smooth offensively as well.

We're very proud of those young men from Conroe High School. They have worked hard through their careers to achieve this academic honor. It's a reflection on them and their families that they have taken their studies so serious. These young men are a reflection of the guys we want in our program. They are well-rounded students who all have bright futures. We're proud that they represent Conroe High School in such a fine fashion.

Pat Barker

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

Mark McKinnon

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.

Peter Jackson

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.

We do have to buy players like Real Madrid and AC Milan so we can't say our philosophy is just to use young players, ... We will bring players in from outside and inside but it is up to me and the academy to make sure the players are good enough.

Patricia Kennedy

While academics certainly are the most important aspect of school, it's important that we create a well-rounded educational experience.

While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.

We're always happy to be highly placed by any ranking, and we are very proud of our academic programs. But we always question whether rankings alone are enough for anyone to judge the quality of an institution.

We'd want to have any sort of preventive measures in place before we reach the beginning of the next academic year.

We are thrilled that Richard Edgar has decided to continue his academic and athletic career at George Mason. Richard is an outstanding person with impeccable credentials as both a person and a student athlete.

Mark Twain

Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.

We must recruit the very best student-athletes we can. ... We have a very high standard for graduation rates for our entire university community, ... While there are certainly examples of academic success, there are simply not enough.

We believe there is strong alignment between what the MAP tests cover and what the college-entry exams cover, at least in the areas of communications arts and mathematics. In other words, they both test similar content. If necessary, we could supplement an existing national test to get the coverage we need in some academic areas.