Cat Quotes - Page 43

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

True strength is delicate.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity.

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.

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

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

Relationships can't blossom unless there is meaningful communication. That's why 'supplication is the key to worship.' It is a sign of meaningful communication between God and a person.