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.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

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.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Every President wants to do right.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.