Quotes by Skills You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all. Nicholas Lemann supportskillssuccessful I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure. Nicholas Lemann emotionalskillschoices I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that. Neil deGrasse Tyson skillsorderthinking The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills. Nicholas Negroponte technologyskillsreal I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time. Nicholas Young gratefulawarenessskills The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work. Nick Blaemire hard-workskillsreal ....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease. Niccolo Machiavelli politicsskillsease Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie. Nick Dear hateskillslying ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills. Nick Harkaway blockskillswriting The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it. Nelson Mandela skillshomechildren [Being a good comedian] is a skill, but it's also a weird thing that only certain people can do. I always equate it to surgeons and how they can just cut people open and operate. Certain people are just wired differently, and I feel like comics are the same way. Nick Swardson cuttingskillspeople It is equally important that we now secure the right deal for Britain - and the next leader must have the skill and credibility to put together the right team to renegotiate our exit from and future relationship with Europe and explain the final terms to the British people. Nicky Morgan teamskillseurope When I arrive in Los Angeles in the entertainment community, and I use implements like a shovel and a hammer, our society has distanced itself so far from working with its hands that those incredibly pedestrian skills are perceived as somehow being extraordinary. Nick Offerman communityskillshands I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills. Nick Offerman incomeskillsyears You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills. Nicki Minaj dont-like-mehateskills If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement. Nicolaus Copernicus ignorantjudgementskills [Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying. Nicolas Winding Refn balanceactorsskills Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training. Nido R Qubein skillsteachingteacher And as ensemblists start being asked to do more things that require an insane skill set, that inherent value will, I hope, be held up where it deserves to be. Nikka Graff Lanzarone inherentinsaneskills It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army. Ninon de L'Enclos making-lovearmyskills«7677787980818283848586»
