Educational Background Quotes

• Education is what allows you to stand out

  Ellen Ochoa

  Standing Out

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• I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Education, Opportunity, Students

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• The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Educational, Character, Thinking

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• I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Educational, Science

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• I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

  Ron Silver

  Education, People, Actors

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• The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

  Kate Mosse

  Educational, Heart, Age

  "Author, author: Kate Mosse". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

  James S. Coleman

  Strong, Children, Educational

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• In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want.

  Dorian Corey

  Jobs, Real, Educational

  ""Paris Is Burning"". Documentary, 1991.

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• In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.

  James C. Collins

  Educational, Character, Skills

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