Educational Quotes - Page 18

• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Technology

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

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• Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Jobs, Responsibility

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.40, Prabhat Prakashan

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• This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Sweat, Details

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• Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

  Franz Kafka

  Tyrants, Two, Parent

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.357, Schocken

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• One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

  Abdul Kalam

  Creating, Focus, Quality

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  Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

  John Keats

  Positive, Happiness, Real

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 19 March 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 81

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Learning

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

  Rose Kennedy

  Business, Reality, Years

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• The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

  Billie Jean King

  Games, Care, Enthusiasm

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Sep 28, 2010

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• Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.

  Mr. Lif

  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• So many books, so little time.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Long, Half

  "Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics". 190+ Stories & Sketches,

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• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wise, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.140, David R. Godine Publisher

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

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Never Trust

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• Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Inspiration, Future, Goal

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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• Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Life, Romantic

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

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• In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

  Phil Collins

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Song: Son Of Man

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• In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Sad, Wisdom

  Charles M Schulz (2015). “You're Golden, Charlie Brown”, Ballantine Group

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• Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Intellectual, Dresses

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• Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Men, Baha, Benefits

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• Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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• The most important thing about education is appetite.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Important, Appetite

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• If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Decatur (Ill.) Daily Republican, 19 May 1882.

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