Quotes about educational
educational existence objects
The education of the will is the object of our existence. Ralph Waldo Emerson
educational son pay
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. Ralph Waldo Emerson
educational book reading
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. Shelby Foote
educational home skills
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest. Shelby Steele
educational kids america
Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines. Seymour Papert
educational skills people
Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills. Seymour Papert
educational kids school
There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school. Seymour Papert
educational giving decision
Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..." Susan Ward
educational phones needs
Answer your phone. Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the phone when someone calls your business. Susan Ward
educational listening problem
Listen to your customers. Can the sales pitches and the product babble. Let your customer talk and show him that you are listening by making the appropriate responses, such as suggesting how to solve the problem. Susan Ward
educational giving attention
Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service. Susan Ward
educational thinking people
Throw in something extra. Whether it's a coupon for a future discount, additional information on how to use the product, or a genuine smile, people love to get more than they thought they were getting. And don't think that a gesture has to be large to be effective. Susan Ward
educational irony promotion
The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did! Susan Ward
educational
Lower prices are not service; they're just lower prices. Susan Ward
educational helpful profit
Be helpful - even if there's no immediate profit in it. Susan Ward
educational keys good-relationship
Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not plan to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception. Susan Ward
educational motivational-sales stories
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. Tate Taylor
educational believe people
I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy. Marco Rubio
educational clothes museums
But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum. Marc Jacobs
educational believe years
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. Thomas A. Edison
educational inspiration genius
Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison
educational thousand findings
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will. Thomas A. Edison
educational frustrated wiser
We are wiser than we know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
educational opportunity people
To me, money is a vehicle; it's a tool. I could use it as a weapon to destroy things or money can create-you can create an opportunity, you can create a charity, you can create things for your family, you can go do something for your family that nobody else would ever do. You can create educational opportunities, you can feed people overseas. And there's a tremendous leverage with money, or you can destroy people with it. Tony Robbins
educational exercise direct-action
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise. Tony Benn
educational chance like-you
If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy. Thomas Watson
educational lying water
Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business. Thomas Watson
educational government self
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. Thomas Jefferson
educational virginia people
The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ... Respectfully representeth ... That the value of science to a republican people, the security it... Thomas Jefferson
educational people enough
what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and appropriated to this very object. it is that it should be employed understandingly, and for their greatest good. that good requires that, while they are... Thomas Jefferson
educational father reading
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach. Thomas Jefferson
educational citizens instruction
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest. Thomas Jefferson
educational character four
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our legislature who meet within a week from this time. my hopes however are kept in check by the ordinary character of our state legislatures, the members... Thomas Jefferson