Quotes about "Education & Learning"

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello. ”

Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible. ”

It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well - whether it's getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months. ”

I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff. ”

If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words. ”

Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers. ”

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that. ”

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. ”

New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus. ”

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. ”