Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

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• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
  • True
  • Education
  • College

• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Job
  • Education

• Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Education
  • Woman
  • Mission

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Serious
  • Stupid
  • Famous

• My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Stupid

• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Me
  • Stupid
  • Dead

• I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stupid

• As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Important
  • Children
  • School

• I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• I believe education is much more important than we assume.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Education

• So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Question

• Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • Eyes

• Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Hope

• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Stupid
  • Clever

• I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

  

  Pia Zadora
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romantic

• You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Want
  • Try
  • Advertising

• In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • World
  • Mother
  • Grace

• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Time
  • Live

• Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Party
  • Conflict
  • Magnitude

• A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

  

  Jennifer A. Nielsen
  • Education
  • Wise
  • Stupid