Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Russell Simmons

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Ronald Reagan

There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals, deepening our tolerance, and sharpening our appetite for knowledge about the rest of the world. Educational and cultural exchanges...provide a perfect opportunity for this precious spark to grow, making us more sensitive and wiser international citizens through our careers.

Roy H. Williams

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

Ron Silver

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

Susan Orlean

I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.

Susan Orlean

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

Sugata Mitra

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

Stuart Wilde

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

Steve Irwin

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.

Steve Jobs

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

Steve Jobs

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves

Peter Brimelow

Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.

Terence McKenna

So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.

Temple Grandin

When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.