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Details are all there are.

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you know you're at a bad university when your commencement speaker is Whitey Bulger.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new.

Don't freak out until you know the facts.

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Don't try to change or tear your brother down, let him make his mistakes and he will come around.

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.

Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

Each to choose their own paths in life, regardless of education, no one can predict the outcome, then one goal in front of him. Anything that can be based on the values of what's coming

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space.

... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.

Education forms the common mind.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.