A Quotes
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“An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.”
“An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.”
“An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.”
“An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.”
“An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.”
“An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.”
“An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.”
“An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.”
“An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.”
Source: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
“An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost arts preserved by a devoted people only in poetry and romance?”
Source: American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
“An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.”
“An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.”
“An educated, informed and well-researched community of pet owners can only put more pressure on the pet food industry to be better! When pet owners know better, they will only do better!”
Source: The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer
“An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. –”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.”
“An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.”
“An educated man must be enlightened, but an enlightened man does not need to be educated.”
“An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt".”
“An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.”
“An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“An Educated Mind is not easily Exploited”
Source: Liberian Son
“An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.”
Source: Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
“An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.”
“An educated nation is a powerful and prosperous nation.”
“An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.”
“An educated people can be easily governed.”
“An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want”
“An educated person is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated person is one who has so developed the faculties of the mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.”
“An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.”
“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”
“An educated person is she or he who knows where or how to acquire knowledge.”
Source: The Unfinished Book About Who We Are
“an educated person is
someone who is well-cultured and
conscious of society, people,
religion, the environment, science, and
diversity.”
“An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.”
Source: Awakenings
“An Educated Woman is an Empowered Woman.”
Source: Liberian Son
“An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.”
“An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy”
“An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.”
“An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.”
“An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“An education devoid of values and wisdom is like a heart that beats mechanically, lacking the depth of purpose and soulful relief that comes from a holistic understanding of life.”
“An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.”
“An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.”
“An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.”
“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
Source: Educated
“An education is the investment with the greatest returns.”
“An education is truly “fitted for freedom” only if it is such as to produce free citizens, citizens who are free not because of wealth or birth, but because they can call their minds their own. Male and female, slave-born and freeborn, rich and poor, they have looked into themselves and developed the ability to separate mere habit and convention from what they can defend by argument. They have ownership of their own thought and speech, and this imparts to them a dignity that is far beyond the outer dignity of class and rank.”
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.”
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”
“An education may cost money… but so do mistakes.”
Source: Real Estate Raw: A step-by-step instruction manual to building a real estate portfolio from start to finish