Television could perform a great service in mass education but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
I am a big believer in education because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Education then beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
If you know how to read you have a complete education about life then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers and we should keep it that way.
There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility the dignity of work the value of education the merit of service devotion to a purpose greater than self and at the foundation the pre-eminence of family.
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Men and women must be educated in a great degree by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway which was one of my great dreams forever.
It is all nonsense to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves it may be said in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives little stories. I thought 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.
Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination and a little bit of luck.
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children to grow and pursue dreams.
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms dreams or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there if it's received great I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received great I respect you for not.
In my lifetime I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously I've seen many dreams shattered egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.
My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth more industry more happiness more human enlightenment than from any other way.