Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Parr

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Simon Mainwaring

How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?

Susan Ward

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

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

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Tate Taylor

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.

Seth Godin

The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Bela Lugosi

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Billy Childish

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Billy Bush

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.

Bobby Fischer

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

Brie Larson

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

John Avlon

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

Andrew Jackson

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Tom Selleck

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings,

Vin Diesel

I've directed independent film.

Spencer Grammer

I want to pay my mortgage and go on vacation, so I love working. I want to be able to do independent projects as well, and being on a successful TV show allows you to do some other things.

Rajneesh

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

John Muir

I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free....

John Waters

I think it's all independent films. There aren't any! If they were looking for me when I was making Polyester, then it'd be perfect, but they're not. I'm not looking for that. TV is much bigger and better now; far more people see it.

John Waters

I think that in America there is a new movement of underground movies that wants to kick the ass of independent films that they think whine too much.