Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.

Jose Angel Gurria

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• I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Bad
  • Courage
  • Chance

• 'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Talent

• I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Education
  • Commitment

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Education
  • Process

• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Education

• I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • People
  • Love
  • Chance

• Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Education
  • Pass
  • Few

• I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Job
  • Best

• I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • Education
  • College

• Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Time
  • Education
  • Decision

• The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Education
  • Present
  • Environment

• The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Society
  • Education

• I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Value

• In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for existence - of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state - begins. These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day, but only repressed.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Society
  • Education

• Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Up
  • Education
  • Ignorance

• I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Always
  • Too Much

• The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Want
  • Competition

• I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.

  

  Joan Smalls
  • Sleep
  • Makeup

• Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Wells
  • Psychological

• I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

  

  George W. Romney
  • Truth
  • Government
  • Credibility

• To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.

  

  Jose Angel Gurria
  • Education
  • Chance
  • Boundaries