Institute Quotes - Page 12

I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

Lee Iacocca

Real, Communication, Effective Listening

Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.58, Bantam

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The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.

Cassandra Clare

Way, Gothic, Modern

Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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People were intrinsically selfish, and many hated the idea of a woman in charge of the Institute. They would not put themselves at risk for her. Only a few weeks ago he would have said the same thing about himself. Now, knowing Charlotte, he realized to his surprise, the idea of risking himself for her seemed an honor, as it would be to most Englishmen to risk themselves for the queen.

Cassandra Clare

Queens, Selfish, Ideas

Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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Jem seemed to look through her then, as if he were seeing something beyond her, beyond the corridor, beyond the Institute itself. "Whatever you are physically," he said, "male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside." He smiled them, seeming to have come back to himself, slightly embarrassed. "That's what I believe.

Cassandra Clare

Strong, Believe, Heart

Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

Wes Jackson

Nature, Agriculture, Land

"A Conversation with Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson". The Hedgehog Review: Vol.14, No.2, iasc-culture.org. Summer 2012.

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I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O’Keeffe ‘Sky Above Clouds’ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.

Joan Didion

Daughter, Art, Light

Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.84, Zola Books

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What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

James Patterson

Teaching, Thug, Six

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Thomas Sowell

Technology, Class, Massachusetts

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We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

Sonia Sotomayor

People, Looks, Attention

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It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.

Rick Santorum

Children, School, Interesting

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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Jerry Saltz

Mother, Art, Chicago

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When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.

Deborah Kara Unger

Art, School, Australia

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

David R. Brower

Country, Organization, Here And There

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As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy London air, and remembered another night, a night of ghosts and snow and Christmas music, and Will standing on the steps of the Institute, watching Magnus as he went.

Cassandra Clare

Night, Air, Christmas Music

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In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

Sydney Brenner

People, Challenges, Atmosphere

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My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sidney Altman

Technology, Events, Massachusetts

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I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

Jack L. Chalker

School, Technology, College

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The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

Norm Dicks

Agency, Government, United States

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Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

Tim Holden

Epidemics, Leader, Disease

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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Hilaire Belloc

Running, Lasts, Fortnight

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I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

Audre Lorde

New York, Heterosexuality Is, Years

Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.110, Crossing Press

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The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Writing, Technology, Errors

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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Thomas A. Edison

College, Never Stop Learning, Learning Life

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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

William S. Burroughs

Past, Viruses, Half

William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Adding Machine”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Esther Dyson

Santa Fe, Boards, Santa

"On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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