Cat Quotes - Page 30

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It's about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn't in any way take away from the original - and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience.

To sing is to pray twice.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting set of ideas that is the math of the world, and is curiously different and surprisingly engaging. Our task is to introduce this second version to today's students, get them excited about math, and prepare them for the future.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy