“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.” CountryAbleLastsGenerationsSittingGainsRadioButtonsBangingOsmosis Author:Dwight Yoakam
“Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.” AbleStrongAbilityEmotionMeditationBuddhismExerciseGainsStrikesConcentrationStrong Emotions Author:Frederick Lenz
“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.” FirstsChildrenUseAbleFormReadingWishEducationStepsLearningCenturyPoliticianFutureSkillsGainsUltimateTwentiesInvestmentEducationalPrioritiesFirst StepsLiteracyAutonomyIlliteracyChildren LearningUnesco Author:Irina Bokova
“Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand” PeopleWellsRealAbleYoungValuesLanguageAnswersProjectsApproachCommitmentGainsImpactCurrentsValuableInsightOnlineMechanismMeasurementMonetaryRobustEvaluationQuestions And AnswersMonetary Value Author:Sarah McCoy
“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.” PeopleGivingWritingBookRealityAgeAbleClassGainsEntertainmentExcuseNovelistsHistorianImaginaryFactualBiographersVicarious Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop level in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.” AblePoliticalForceProcessDecisionLevelsConditionsPoliticianJudgmentLosingGainsDefeatIraqDrivenTerroristCapabilityArtificialCommandersDecreaseGood JudgmentTimetables Author:George W. Bush
“Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good."” MayMomentsAbleEnjoyMysteryGainsTheaterPainfulDelightVersionsEnjoymentVansBad MoviesMasochisticVan HelsingFunny Moments Author:James Berardinelli
“Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.” SelfAbleAttentionIssuesHonestyGainsDetailsMysticismPersonal PowerAttention To DetailGaining Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.” MindHumansAbleDesireSimpleEffortClearFiguresDemandGainsRootsManageMotiveSolePenetrate Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind