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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 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 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 set your wit against a child.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

Education does not mean knowledge (gyan) only, it also contains a life within it; it is not an arrangement, it is a duty. It is not merely a means of livelihood; it is the precious treasure of the noble tradition of giving, bestowing.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

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.

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.