Famous Quotes & Sayings

James D. Watson

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

James Bryant Conant

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.

Jacques Derrida

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

Jacques Barzun

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Jacques Barzun

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

J. William Fulbright

Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.

J. William Fulbright

Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the means by which Russians and Americans can come to understand each others' aspirations for peace and how the satisfactions of everyday life may be achieved.....

J. William Fulbright

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

J. William Fulbright

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

J. William Fulbright

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope....

Iyanla Vanzant

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

Isaac Disraeli

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

Isaac Asimov

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.

Immanuel Kant

It is through education that all the good in the world arises.

Elton John

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

Elton John

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

Jim Evans

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

Jeff Bezos

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Jeff Bezos

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts

Jeff Bezos

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

George William Curtis

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

George Will

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

George Sand

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Jean Paul

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Jerry Seinfeld

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Jeffrey Gitomer

The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Biggest question: Isn't it really 'customer helping' rather than customer service? And wouldn't you deliver better service if you thought of it that way?

Jeffrey Gitomer

Customers will want to talk to you if they believe you can solve their problems.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation.

Jeffrey Tambor

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

Jim Bush

There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.

James C. Collins

In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.

James A. Garfield

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.