Quotes About World Class

#1. The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

Gore Vidal

#2. We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Bob Taft

#3. I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis ... This time it's us that's doing it.

Frans Lanting

#4. It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home, to bring world-class, classical music to Somerset.

Charles Hazlewood

#5. I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Diane Kruger

#6. Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

#7. The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.

Rashid Johnson

#8. A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it, my dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.

Kurt Russell

#9. It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class

Azim Jamal

#10. Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them.

Howard Rheingold

#11. Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.

Neneh Cherry

#12. ( ... ) Trying to think of how to take the least crowded ways to class, so the least amount of people will stare at the hole in my neck. Sometimes it feels like it has a beacon in it, flashing for the entire world to see, except it's not cool like the Bat signal.

Keary Taylor

#13. If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is ... It's the same coming from a working-class background ... it never leaves you.

Caitlin Moran

#14. In principle you could hypertunnel from a Zone B world, but in practice you
can't get the tech together. The evil rays revel in chaotic class-three
and class-four zones.
Rudy Rucker, story notes, Mathies in Love

Rudy Rucker

#15. The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Brian Grazer

#16. For WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model.

Matt Mullenweg

#17. I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

Sue Townsend

#18. Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

Edwin Moses

#19. There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Henry Ford

#20. I've always thought that was the lamest argument - that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so other people can feel better about themselves. What a selfish way to look at the world.

Josephine Angelini

#21. People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

Ben Horowitz

#22. Far fewer people know that Slash is also a world-class Russian crouch-down-and-kick-your-legs-out dancer. And

Duff McKagan

#23. Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN

Daniel H. Pink

#24. The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.

Noam Chomsky

#25. I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

James Packer

#26. [On yoga] Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world.

Jennifer Beals

#27. I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period. You'd just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.

Andrea Portes

#28. The bigoted sectarian, whoever he may be, divides the world into two classes; those who, with zeal and blind faith, accept his dogmas and those who do not. The first he calls "brother, "and the second class he regards as enemies who must be persecuted.

Anonymous

#29. First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

Kate Middleton

#30. The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#31. If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it's really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

J.M. Ledgard

#32. Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.

Friedrich Engels

#33. Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

Edward Eggleston

#34. Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#35. In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.

Tim Howard

#36. In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. The way that you become world-class is ... by asking good questions.

Tim Ferriss

#38. Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck.

Francis Lee

#39. You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

Josh Linkner

#40. You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

Damian Lewis

#41. Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

Darrell Issa

#42. As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

Christina Romer

#43. All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class

Zinedine Zidane

#44. The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.
Yet still, they began their journeys.

Mike Dooley

#45. I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

Walt Mossberg

#46. I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally.

Tim Leiweke

#47. We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

Jean Vanier

#48. I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

Kapil Dev

#49. In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

Ali Liebegott

#50. For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.

Robert Kurson

#51. There is no economic necessity for continuing the arms race after the World War, even from the standpoint of the capitalist class itself, with the exception of at most certain armaments interests.

Anonymous

#52. At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

Stephen King

#53. Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Jeff Greene

#54. If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

Robin S. Sharma

#55. It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you're white or of a higher class,no matter what race you are, you'll probably mess up. Maybe get yelled at. But there are worse things. Like keeping your dignity safe at home, while the world goes to hell.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#56. We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.

Uday Kotak

#57. I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.

Kenneth Williams

#58. Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

Bill Gates

#59. It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change the world once a generation. That is certainly worth something.

Catherynne M Valente

#60. The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#61. The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.

Richard Llewellyn

#62. The middle class and the world class might live in the same world, but they do not share the same level of freedom. While this infuriates the masses, it motivates the ambitious to get rich.

Steve Siebold

#63. For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#64. I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

Sebastian Thrun

#65. Look at the high and the low, all the world over, and it's the same story, - the lower class used up, body, soul and spirit, for the good of the upper.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#66. I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of Children Award Gala, at which I have the profound pleasure of meeting the newest class of changemakers for children who are there to receive their World of Children Award.

Stephanie March

#67. Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.

Russell Kirk

#68. Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life

Elena Ferrante

#69. It's the scariest thing in the world, going to acting class, because first of all, there's a lot of pressure. I just go back to being that fourth grader who couldn't, like, sit still in her seat.

Eva Mendes

#70. I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

Dennis Lehane

#71. He has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also, what they have not.
this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the streets of cities to the Atlantis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#72. Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

Huey Lewis

#73. I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

Walter Kohn

#74. And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

Ralph Bunche

#75. I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.

Cara Delevingne

#76. Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.

Mark Hunt

#77. She felt like a world-class musician standing before a full auditorium and handed a kazoo.

James S.A. Corey

#78. Nothing was left to chance; every smell, every piece of furniture, and certainly the design of the floor plans made these model homes world-class.

Dave Ramsey

#79. There are a lot of great inventors and improvers in the world. But those who hack world-class success tend to be the ones who can focus relentlessly on a tiny number of things. In other words, to soar, we need to simplify.

Shane Snow

#80. If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

Bill Vaughan

#81. I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.

Craig Venter

#82. Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#83. We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

Ross Martin

#84. At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

Soledad O'Brien

#85. People sometimes approach me tentatively or suspiciously because of my father's reputation as a world-class negotiator, as if they think I'm about to take advantage of them. As if I know something I'm not letting on.

Ivanka Trump

#86. The upper-caste, upper-class Hindus have to let go of their bigotry and prejudice. The oppressed have to let go of their justified but expensive urge for revenge and retribution. All over the world, the oppressed have only risen through self-empowerment - look at the Jews and the Parsis.

Chetan Bhagat

#87. This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities.

Steve Fisher

#88. People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.

Meg Whitman

#89. World class communities come in all shapes and sizes, they are not determined by geography, and/or natural resources so much as by the mindset of their local leadership.

Don A. Holbrook

#90. Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.

James E. Rogers

#91. It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

Barack Obama

#92. It doesn't matter if it's in my class or around the world, anywhere, the first thing I say is "First of all guys, I want to give my Heavenly Father credit for all I do and the Lord Jesus Christ to give me the opportunity to go out and reach and save lives." To me, that's the most important thing.

Billy Blanks

#93. If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

William J. Clinton

#94. I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right.

Scott Aukerman

#95. I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

Eva Mendes

#96. I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority, and that's what makes me feel sane and not removed from the realities of my world.

Misty Copeland

#97. If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

Brendan Rodgers

#98. A seven-year-old cannot question the mathematical calculations of a world-class physicist. Yet we question how God is running the world. Does that make sense?

Timothy J. Keller

#99. I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.

John Doar

#100. I'm an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make.

Robin S. Sharma