I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

I like to work.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

Information is not knowledge.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Libraries raised me.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I’m not really book-smart.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.