Educational Idea Quotes

#1. The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.

Brian Tracy

#2. My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

Robbie Robertson

#3. I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.

Terence McKenna

#5. That was the moment when I knew I was in real trouble, that I might really be the kind of person you weren't supposed to be.

Drew Nellins Smith

#6. I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

Poppy Z. Brite

#7. We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.

Stephen Downes

#8. Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

Dale Ahlquist

#9. If you're going to die, die interesting! Is there anything worse than a boring death? (Other than a Charlie Rose marathon on PBS?) I think not. When my time comes I'm going to go out in high style. I have no intention of being sick or lingering or dragging on and on and boring everyone I know.

Joan Rivers

#10. Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

Ken Robinson

#11. This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

William James

#13. Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers. Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to win.

K.A. Brill

#14. The church occupies the space he has made so that the world may see what a people look like who are not determined by the destructive fantasy that we can secure our lives through violence.

Stanley Hauerwas

#15. Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road.

Geezer Butler

#16. My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessy happy, weren't they? To Kristy this had always seemed self-evident. Tonight, however, the alcohol made her wonder if envy hadn't blinded her. Perhaps to be flawless was another kind of sadness.

Clive Barker

#18. But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

Rob Zombie

#19. Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

Diane Ravitch

#20. There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'

Norm MacDonald

#21. Education is the best gift my parent gave me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. There is no fact which is not at least part fiction.

Marty Rubin

#23. Shit, money, and the Word, the three American truths, powering the American mobility, claimed the Slothrops, clasped them for good to the country's fate.

Thomas Pynchon

#24. My circumstances will sometimes be pleasant and sometimes be difficult, but teach me that the way I react to them is almost more important than the circumstances themselves. Renew my mind, Lord, and enable me to respond with joy and humility to whatever happens, as Jesus did.

Amy E. Mason

#25. Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.

Tom Peters

#26. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

Margaret Sanger

#27. Celibacy is the Tesla family secret, passed down through the
generations."
"Celibacy, passed down through the generations?"Victor asked dryly.
I flushed. "Its efficacy is not disproved by its imperfect application,"
I muttered.

Vinnie Tesla