Quotes by Skills All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies. Thomas E. Mann loyaltyskillsleadership Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes. Thomas Ehrlich motivationskillsmean This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages. Thomas Carlyle skillssoulcharacter If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house. Thomas Friedman skillsnumbersjobs 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. Thomas Fuller strengthskillsleadership Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. Thomas Frank blamereturnskills A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. Thomas Fuller skillslittlesmen Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as "and they can deliver it tomorrow" or "so I've invited them for dinner?" or "they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply. Terry Pratchett husbandskillsblue The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn. Thomas Menino skillssportspeople Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. Thomas Moore dataskillseducation And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else. Thomas Hobbes skillsscienceart The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill. Thomas Noon Talfourd skillshumanitydiscovery I ushered souls into the next world. I was the grave of all hope. I was the ultimate reality. I was the assassin against whom no lock would hold. - "Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?" Terry Pratchett skillstakenreality Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills. Thomas Piketty favorsskillslong God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation. Thomas S. Monson skillscloudsmen Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results. Thomas Szasz skillsresponsibilityself The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis. Thomas Szasz skillsjobsneeds Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human. Terry Pratchett escapingskillsdoors It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success Thomas Yellowtail huntersawarenessskills One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies. Thomas Sowell politicalskillslying«102103104105106107108109110111112»
