“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.” WorldHumansLongSelfProblemCoursesCareersRightsEconomicCenturyRacismSolutionsDeterminationThirdsInternationalHuman RightsCommunismPropagandaSelf DeterminationSolidarityIntegrationTwentieth CenturyScholarshipThird World Author:David Levering Lewis
“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.” NeedsShouldFirstsKindMeanDoeTwoHardReasonHomeKidsMotherHouseDecisionDealsNumbersCareersPracticeInvolvedThirdsPursueUncertaintyBuyingStakesSpouseNursingGroceriesNursing Home Author:Steven Levitt
“Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.” DecisionCareersInspireMembersThirdsMiserySatisfactionInspire Others Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.” CareersInfluenceThirds Author:Tom Glavine
“A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.” WantMindRealityAgeDesireSufferingFoundCareersYouthExpressionThirdsFelicityCorrespondence Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.” WorldCountryKidsCareersStudentsCollegeReadyCouplePercentThirdsErrors Author:Jeb Bush