Promotion Quotes - Page 6

• The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Treasure, Praise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, People, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Country, Progress

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Educational, Moving

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• Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Oxford, Aristocracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.354, Penguin

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• Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Impact, Environmental, Attention

  Pope Benedict XVI's Letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on the Occasion of the Seventh Symposium of the Religion, Science and the Environment Movement, w2.vatican.va. September 1, 2007.

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• In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, West, Harmony

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• Everybody hates lawyers, but they don't realize judges are just lawyers with a promotion. Think about it.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Hate, Thinking, Judging

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• The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Women, Feminist, Humanity

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• Equally important for the promotion of excellence in the university is an emphasis on shared governance. The faculty needs to be involved directly in the process of running the university and in the setting of priorities.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Running, Priorities, Excellence

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, People, Hong Kong

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Memories, Loneliness

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• If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

  Charles Bent

  Suffering, Christ, Bent

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• The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.

  Melville Fuller

  Government, Order, United States

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• I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Hard Work, Humor

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• There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

  Jess Walter

  Self, Self Promotion

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• The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Military, Class, America

  "Campaign 2000: Promoting the National Interest" by Condoleezza Rice in Foreign Affairs, Volume 79, No. 1, www.foreignaffairs.com. January/February 2000.

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• I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

  Nicki Chapman

  Jobs, Three, Records

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.

  Robert Kane Pappas

  Independent, Hollywood Films, Shooting

  "Can the Corporate Media Turn Lies Into Truth?". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.scoop.co.nz. August 12, 2011.

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• The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values.

  Philip Selznick

  Leader, Experts, Protection

  Philip Selznick (2011). “Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation”, p.42, Quid Pro Books

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• Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.

  Jack White

  Art, Perception, Marketing

  Jack White (2013). “Methods of Success: Artists fail because of unfounded fear, jealousy, insecurity, not knowing and a lack of confidence. This book will eliminate these lies from your life.”, p.112, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

  Anna Quindlen

  Real, House, Next

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

  David Ogilvy

  Illumination, Support, Marketing

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• It is important to explain fully to the local areas with sincerity. We will also think, of course, about the development promotion of the communities.

  Shinzo Abe

  Thinking, Community, Important

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• Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Believe, Cutting

  Ian McEwan (2010). “The Cement Garden”, p.48, Random House

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