Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Bennis

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

Wen Jiabao

Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without basic research as the wellspring and driving force. But, in this world of ours, often because of material gains and immediate interests, it is easy to neglect basic research. This should be avoided.

Tom Headley

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has a number of Braddock markers in Allegheny and Fayette counties, but none in Westmoreland. We applied for a PAHMC marker but were turned down. So we put up our own marker on Main Street in Mt. Pleasant, which we dedicated.

Des Browne

The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally.

Eric Topol

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

C. S. Forester

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

Colin Trevorrow

I applied everything that I could muster creatively to this mission to find a way to create a new 'Jurassic Park' movie for a new generation.

Alex Steffen

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

Zac Goldsmith

The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Wentworth Miller

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

William Cameron Forbes

It looks like business, and people are much pleased.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Reddington Hewlett

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Will Friedle

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Walt Mossberg

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

Wendy Kopp

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Wendy Kopp

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

Wendy Kopp

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Ezra Taft Benson

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Bill Harris

The political parties don't fight over whether education is important. They know it is.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Wole Soyinka

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

William Godwin

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Charlie Trotter

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Peter Daniels

We're not going to sacrifice a thorough or impartial investigation just to make sure we do it prior to the start of the tournament. But obviously, that's the goal.

Leonard Mlodinow

On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection.

Winston Churchill

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

Granth Sahib

You impart understanding, and You unite us in Your Union.

Phil Gramm

When this is over, the important thing will be whether we can say that we rendered impartial justice.

Manfred Nowak

It only means that there is need for an impartial and independent investigation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial

Jamie Lee Curtis

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.

Ralph W. Sockman

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Susanne Langer

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Ivan Urlaub

We have limited knowledge, or else science and philosophy would not be necessary.

V. S. Naipaul

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Source Unknown

Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Josh Billings

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

David Weinberger

With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.

Edwards Deming

Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

Ludwig von Mises

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Ed Moyle

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

Guy Dolle

Unfortunately, my son is not on the management team.

Jack Welch

Be candid with everyone.

Jack Welch

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Julie Regan

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Donald Rupe

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Phil Palmer

The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Bonnie MacPherson

It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

John Boyega

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Lester Bowie

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Neil Tennant

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

Elisabetta Canalis

I love variety in my life.