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"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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Personal Development
"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
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Personal Development
"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."
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Personal Development
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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Personal Development
"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."
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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
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"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
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"We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher."
Teaching
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
Education
"The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned."
Education
"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
Change
"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"
Work
"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
Knowledge
"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."
Education
"We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to."
Choice
"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."
Education
"Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first."
Peace
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