Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.

Brad Henry

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Jane Hamilton

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Haddam

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

Jane Jacobs

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Jane Byrne

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Jane Goodall

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Kenneth Edmonds

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

Elizabeth Warren

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

Whether you are talking about cardiac care or education, the fundamental question is: How do you provide it for everyone?

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Alanis Morissette

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

Blake Mycoskie

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.

Blaise Pascal

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Billie Jean King

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

Chris Crutcher

...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

Charles Portis

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

Democritus

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Democritus

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Dean Koontz

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

Dean Kamen

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

Dean Koontz

It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.

Daniel H. Pink

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.

Daniel H. Pink

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Daniel Goleman

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

Daniel Handler

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Clyde Tombaugh

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

Clyde Tombaugh

It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Elizabeth Warren

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth I

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.