Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Vickrey

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.

Will Rogers

The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Will Rogers

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Zig Ziglar

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

Zhuangzi

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

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.

Voltaire

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

Winston Churchill

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

Winston Churchill

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

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.

Wendell Johnson

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Wendell Berry

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

William Penn

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Zig Ziglar

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

Morgan Freeman

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

Jose Marti

The only way to be totally free is through education.

Kenneth Clark

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

Kerry Stokes

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

Napoleon Hill

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

Jack Welch

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Harvey Cushing

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Harvey Mackay

There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.

Henry Giroux

Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist intellectuals have failed to take on as a major political and educational project.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile....

Mahatma Gandhi

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

James S. Coleman

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

James Russell Lowell

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Q. Wilson

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Jon Bon Jovi

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

Louis Nizer

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.