Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained. "

Related Quotes:

" Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people. "

" If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate. "

" How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. "

" I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business. "

" Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before. "

" I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers. "

" I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven. "

" Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that. "

" People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views. "

" Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated. "

" I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500. "

" Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline. "

" The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied. "

" I'd rather be respected than loved. "

" You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job. "

" I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours. "

" I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally. "

" A real collector does not sell. "

" For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: 'How can we provide value to our customers?' At the end of the day, that is what matters. "

" Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. "

" School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about. "

" As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools. "

" You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school. "

" I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy. "

" Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before. "

" Philanthropy is activism. "

" People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me. "

" School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs. "

" The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education. "

" Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. "