Skills Quotes - Page 22

• We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

  Siobhan Davies

  Artist, Our World, Europe

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• The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  People, Incentives, Matching

  Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

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• The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Gloves, Language, Awe

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• Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Direct Selling, Backgrounds

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• Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

  Mark Slouka

  People, Care, Reason

  Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child I wanted to invent a machine that could record my dreams, so I could watch them in the morning; or hire someone to draw the things I had in my head, because I knew I didn't have the skill to do it myself. Theater is that machine. I can make these images come to life and actually walk around inside them for a while.

  Mary Zimmerman

  Dream, Morning, Children

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• Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Jobs, Titles, World

  Richard Nelson Bolles (2000). “What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters & Career-changers”

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• Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

  John Milius

  Drama, Writing, Use

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• Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

  Richard Louv

  Art, Nature, Math

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.162, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

  John Carmack

  Cds, Tools, Levels

  "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture". Book by David Kushner, May 6, 2003.

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• The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

  Thomas Menino

  Sports, People, Young

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• Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

  Soichiro Honda

  Real, Lying, Brain

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• Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sorrow, Tragedy, Trying

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art... skill has nothing to do with technical proficiency... I'm interested in people who rethink skill, who redefine or reimagine it: an engineer, say, who builds rockets from rocks.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Crazy, Rocks

  "The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos: A Renaissance of Romanticism in Modernity" by Pietros Maneos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.

  Ray Mears

  Great Things

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• I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

  Jonny Lang

  Guy, Wish, Consciousness

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• British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Mean, Illustration, Expression

  Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). “On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

  John Doerr

  Long, People, Economy

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• In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.

  Michael Meade

  Heart, Boys, Fire

  Michael Meade (1993). “Men and the water of life: initiation and the tempering of men”, Harpercollins

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• You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

  Robyn

  Book, Use, Produce

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• As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Believe, Kids

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.110, Broadway Books

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• Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion.

  Jan Morris

  Essence, Cities, Flow

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• To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime: critical analysis skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity and to solve problems, perseverance and a drive for excellence. Moreover, the creative skills children develop through the arts carry them toward new ideas, new experiences, and new challenges, not to mention personal satisfaction. This is the intrinsic value of the arts, and it cannot be overestimated.

  Rod Paige

  Perseverance, Art, Children

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• It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

  John Thorn

  Children, Boys, Past

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• Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

  Heather Hart

  Book, Successful, Persistence

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