“Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.” FirstsPersonsPurposeLanguageGoalCommunityEffortQualityPlanetsHighestAskingSingle PersonWikipediaEncyclopedia Author:Jimmy Wales
“Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.” NeedsStillsCountryWholeSchoolLanguageSocialGoalTeachGenerationsTeachingStageTaughtSkillsConflictComputerSurvivalFocusedPsychologicalPostsGermanyAddressesResolutionTeamworkTechnologicalWorkplaceGrammarCompetenceNeglectedThis GenerationConflict ResolutionComputer LanguageGrammar SchoolBreadwinnerPsychological Needs Author:Warren Farrell
“Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing and where you are going. Big almost impossible, highly meaningful goal + respectful & supportive team is the winning combination of fear & love. Meaning is the biggest sources of energy that gets you up in the morning.” PeopleKnowsBigsTurnsWinningEnergyLanguageGoalSimpleMorningImpossibleTeamSourceMembersStrategyMeaningfulCombinationWhere You AreStaffSupportiveRespectfulLove MeansFear Of LoveWhere You Are GoingStaff Members Author:Michael Rennie
“The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.” WayActionOpportunityLanguageGoalTalkingDiscriminationSettingSettingsTargetSetting GoalsAustralianAffirmative ActionAffirmativeQuota Author:Quentin Bryce
“Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.” LanguageGivenProcessGoalPrinciplesStudyParticularSentencesAnalysisDevicesConstructionInvestigationGrammarLinguisticsSyntax Book:Syntactic Structures Source: Syntactic Structures
“Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a child's learning and leave a child's dignity intact cannot be called discipline--it is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.” GivingChildrenDoeSelfMatterHelpingLanguageParentGoalTeachDisciplineDignityOur ChildrenNo Matter WhatTechniquePunishmentSelf DisciplineImposition Author:Barbara Coloroso
“One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.” WritingKindSeemsOrderLanguageGoalAmbitionEntitledPower Of Language Author:Cynthia Ozick
“My goal was to reach this literary crowd, but I didn't want to alienate my core fan base. I grew up speaking that language, this isn't put on. I can go back and forth; it's almost like being bilingual. But I'm not college educated; I don't know rules of grammar.” KnowsWantI CanLanguageGoalFansCollegeGrewGrew UpCrowdsCoreEducatedGrammarBack And Forth Author:Rude Jude
“It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.” GovernmentPurposeLanguageGoalMoralMediaDangerousCapitalismAbsence Author:Elisabeth Murdoch
“In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.” WritingTryingMindLanguageGoalNovelAudienceReaderToolsFinalsScreensTransitionPrincipalScreenplays Author:Philippe Claudel
“I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.” KnowsWritingMadeDreamSchoolFilmOrderLanguageGoalAbilityEffortPracticeRichMastersParisFilmmakerBad ThingsJournalFilm School Author:Abdellah Taia