Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Gitomer

Customers will want to talk to you if they believe you can solve their problems.

Jeffrey Tambor

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

James A. Baldwin

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

James A. Baldwin

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

James A. Baldwin

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

It's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

Hippocrates

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place...

Hillary Clinton

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

Hillary Clinton

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

Herbert Croly

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Evan Esar

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

Evan Esar

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Ernst Haas

Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.

George Washington Carver

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

George Washington Carver

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Henry Louis Gates

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Geoffrey Canada

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

Gary Player

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Jerome Bruner

Knowledge is justified belief.

Jerome Bruner

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Jeff Bezos

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

Frederick William Robertson

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Erich Fromm

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

Guy Kawasaki

The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

Martha Stewart

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

Bill Cosby

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.

Carl Rogers

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Benjamin Rush

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic social and political happiness.