I just am not good at math.
How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, All I really want in this life is to be happy? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I dont think so. Ill bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless youre willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.
Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.
Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.
This ain’t my first rodeo son!
Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.
There is power in forgiveness.
Many of my students don’t know that I’m second lady of the United States… because, you know, it’s a community college.
That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read, he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.
In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
Women who earn a certificate or degree from a community college, especially in STEM-related field, will be ready to move into a good-paying job in the growing global economy. Community colleges also offer mentorship and support that goes far beyond the classroom.
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn’t deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he’d been able to go.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return.
I came in early every day for six months till I intercepted the letter from UCLA saying they’d never heard of me. I replaced it with a letter that said I’d graduated.
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today’s youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.
Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.
