Quotes of: Modern-education Keyword

When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book.

Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations

She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.

A Thoroughly Modern Princess

If one’s life is so unsatisfying that an unhealthy activity brings a shred of happiness, it is nigh impossible to give it up unless something that brings greater happiness can be enjoyed in its stead. (28)

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

I came in several times and spoke, but perhaps you were asleep when I thought you were awake.' 'You are very considerate to explain it this way,' Sugreeva said, 'but I was drunk

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern i...

Theodor Herzl

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuin...

Pranab Mukherjee

I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the film and the writing and the style of acting, and we look at them perhaps in a way to see what we can steal from them, too, t...

Francois Cluzet

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen inter...

Dalai Lama

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

Chinese

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

The whole game was about confidence, as it always was. Everything was fine—until it wasn't.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

It didn't matter what I wore, or how much sleep I'd had or not had, he always looked at me as if his world began and ended with me.

The Education of Caroline

Education always precedes experience but Your real victory is when you Experience something you haven’t been educated for and you Excel.

GWG

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

Eduardo Galeano

The older members of my family always demonstrate education as a cure to a disease but I think education is not a cure. It's immunity.

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Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL