Cat Quotes - Page 73

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

I am a nice young girl here to pick up your granddaughter for the weekend... We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her. - Bones to Cat's grandparents

If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

Do I dream very much? Do I dream predominantly about fashion? No. I dream much more about cats.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with every concept all associations pertaining to the complex.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.

Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.