Patricia Ryan Quotations

We're guardedly happy. Meanwhile, we'll go on with our mission as before: training language students. We did it yesterday, we're doing it today and we'll do it tomorrow.

Despite some of the closings we've had, we seem to be doing all right. With the rain and everything, there was some question at first, but we seem to be holding our own right now.

We have several empty stores, and I think there are several others that aren't doing well.

Information Technology is crucial to helping businesses innovate, and with a shortage of qualified IT professionals, it's important that today's college students are aware of the tremendous opportunities available for them in this field. Through the Future Potential in IT seminar, we hope to show students that IT offers solid careers right here in Seattle and around the country that will help change the face of business.

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.

Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.

Deliver more than you promise.

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable face of globalization? Do we want to lose the variety of languages and all the rich culture that comes with them?