Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.

Jane Goodall

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Arthur Blank

We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.

bell hooks

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

bell hooks

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

bell hooks

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

Dean Koontz

It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.

Dee Hock

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Dennis Miller

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.

Benjamin Franklin

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Benjamin Franklin

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Bertrand Russell

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Bertrand Russell

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

Benjamin Disraeli

The essence of education is the education of the body.

Daniel Handler

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Elizabeth I

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

Arlo Guthrie

You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.

Aleksandar Hemon

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Albert Einstein

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

Alfred North Whitehead

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

Albert Einstein

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

Albert Einstein

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Albert Einstein

... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

Adolf Hitler

In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.

Alexander Turney Stewart

You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

Aaron Levie

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

Adam Braun

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Aesop

Appearances may be deceiving.