Cat Quotes - Page 85

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

Discontent is the catalyst for change.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. As i say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise, and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark, "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects, but by God he can wrap a cat.

Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

We live in a world of communication, everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.