Top 1200 Excellent Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

I think if we give kids a break in education, we would have fewer crimes being committed. If we keep them on track, they know that they have options. It's important for me because, you know, my life would've been different had I not had the education that I had.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Facebook and Twitter and Instagram are excellent ways to keep in touch with the audience and maintain your image an actor.

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. There is some ground for calling a rhetorical education necessarily aristocratic education in that the rhetorician has to deal with an aristocracy of notions.

The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

I like a lot of my Republican colleagues, starting with my friend from Indiana, Senator Lugar. We've had an excellent relationship.

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

Regardless of how Beautified turned out, it was a great experience, and it was an excellent product and one that people really appreciated in the space.

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.'

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

As late as 2009, 90 per cent of Afghans reckoned Karzai's performance was excellent, good or fair.

I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

I will say that my father loved to teach and was a very gifted teacher. He probably would have been an excellent coach and trainer.

Whenever a team has three weeks to prepare, and it's an excellent coach and coaching staff and great players, you've got to work on it all.

My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!

I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter.

Everyone needs to support AFI. Since they are doing an excellent job, we need to reach greater heights.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.

My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

Yellow fin or albacore are excellent tasting, or the dolphin fish but I don't mean the mammal variety. They call It mahimahi in Hawaii.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.

Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.

This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.

I regard Buffon as one of the best goalkeepers in the history of football. He is a legend for me, a fantastic man, and an excellent goalkeeper.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

The men and women at our borders, given adequate resources, are doing an excellent job of keeping us safe.