Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Peterffy

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

Vita Sackville-West

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

Sargent Shriver

I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.

Sargent Shriver

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

Sarah Newton

THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY

Sanford I. Weill

Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

Robert Ballard

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

Robert Anton Wilson

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.

Tucker Max

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

Richard Dawkins

If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here... to leave and go to a proper university.

Sandra Cisneros

If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good fat, and it has a good texture, and it tastes better. Just imagine if you substituted that. Or if we switched to olive oil, the extra virgin olive oil, we could still have our taquitos, but put a little oil on them and put them in the oven and bake them.

Robertson Davies

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Will McDonough

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

Samuel Dash

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Salma Hayek

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

Rudolf Steiner

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

William Glasser

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

William Glasser

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

Sophie Kinsella

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

Thomas Hill

To the makying of bookes of gardenyng there is noe ende.

Thomas G. Stemberg

One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

Thomas G. Stemberg

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

Thomas G. Stemberg

If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.

Thomas Keneally

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

Victor Hugo

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

Gordon Bethune

It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.

Gordon B. Hinckley

May I suggest that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous educational effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many-your families and others-now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings.

Henry David Thoreau

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

Henry David Thoreau

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

H. L. Mencken

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

H. L. Mencken

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.