The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

To make headway, improve your head.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Never confuse motion with action.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I never say I am a guru.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Begin with the end in mind.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

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.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.