Fred Reichheld famous quotes

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Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap
Don't take 'no' for an answer.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

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