Andreas Schleicher Quotes

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

Andreas Schleicher

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• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kind
  • Living
  • Most

• I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Fat

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Stupid
  • Dreams

• I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Long
  • Love

• The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Story
  • Situation

• I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

  

  Rachel True
  • Think
  • Follower
  • Frankly

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Question
  • Child
  • Silent

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Success
  • Light

• Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Literature

• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
  • She
  • Think

• Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

  

  Christine Gregoire
  • Future
  • Education

• When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

  

  Chuck Feeney
  • Money

• I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

  

  Loretta Young
  • God
  • Faith
  • Courage

• This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.

  

  John Kasich
  • World
  • Country
  • Children

• I sincerely believe that there is nothing truly great in any man or woman except their character, their willingness to move beyond the realm of self and into a greater realm of selflessness. Giving back is the ultimate talent in life. That is the greatest trophy on my mantel.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Woman

• You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

  

  Andreas Schleicher
  • Money
  • Education
  • Quality