“If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.” IfsBelieveWellsMightHavensSkills Author:Bill Mollison
“If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.” PeopleIfsThinkingProblemBigsTogetherFormEasySkillsWorking TogetherCollaborationBackwardsBig Problems Author:Edward Boyden
“The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.” PeopleWantProblemSkillsToolsImpactSolveProviders Author:Edward Boyden
“I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.” ThinkingNeedsShouldBelieveMayImportantCountryReasonPlayBigsTodayAbleMovingRolesSkillsAmbitionAreasDirectShould HaveIndiaManagementInvestmentChineseReason WhyLeagueNeighborhoodNo ReasonInitiativeOther CountriesInfrastructureThink BigManagement Skills Author:Manmohan Singh
“We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture - move and move fast enough. And at the same time the working force that is available must have skills which will fit the kind of jobs which will be in demand.” KindTwoEnoughJobsMovingForceWalksEconomyConditionsFitSkillsDemandAvailableLegsAgricultureManufacturing Author:Manmohan Singh
“I do believe that India is a unique case. And you need I think exceptional skills I think to incorporate Indian into the world nuclear order.” ThinkingWorldNeedsBelieveOrderCasesSkillsUniqueIndiaNuclearExceptional Author:Manmohan Singh
“I have always believed India is a country blessed by God with enormous entrepreneurial skills.” CountrySkillsIndiaBlessedEnormousAlways BelieveEntrepreneurial Author:Manmohan Singh
“It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.” KnowsShouldWellsRunningStrangeSkillsVoteCastsRadioBackgroundsStationsVotersElitistPlumberRadio StationsUninformedBackground Knowledge Author:Jason Brennan
“I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.” DifferentPlayGamesTeamSkillsStrategyReactionaries Author:Asa Butterfield
“What I believe is the more we can do for the middle class, the more we can invest in you, your education, your skills, your future, the better we will be off and the better we'll grow. That's the kind of economy I want us to see again.” WantBelieveKindI BelieveGrowsCan DoClassEconomyMiddleSkillsMiddle ClassOur FutureYour FutureWant U Author:Hillary Clinton
“Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.” SometimesGovernmentWould BeHappenedSkillsDirectTransfers Author:Hillary Clinton
“I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingMadeWould BeNamesFunWatchesCreativeIdentitySkillsCoreMade ItIf I CouldDozenSuperheroCreative WorkTechnical Skills Author:Kurt Busiek
“[Julian Albert] is a CSI investigator; a forensic expert with similar skills to Barry, which gives them a different relationship to, I think, anyone else that he works with, because they're sort of treading on each other's toes in their field of expertise.” ThinkingGivingDifferentFieldsSkillsExpertsToesExpertiseInvestigatorsTreadingForensicsCsiDifferent Relationships Author:Tom Felton
“You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.” CertainBornSkillsAcquire Author:Ry Cooder
“Once you feel that you've learned some skills and you know how to make records, the next thing is, "Do we ever get to make one that people will really like?" Because then we'll have something to do.” PeopleKnowsFeelsNextKnow HowRecordsSkills Author:Ry Cooder
“Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances. She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program. And that's what an intelligence surge means, better skill and capacity, but also about our alliances.” KnowsWorldMeanStatesKnow HowSkillsWeaponsBuiltCapacityProgramClintonNuclearAround The WorldRegimesNuclear WeaponsSecretaryAlliancesSanctionsIranian Author:Tim Kaine
“Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.” ExampleSkillsBuiltJazzTunesImprovisationBusiness Sense Author:John Kao
“Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the other musicians and that the audience enjoys. You cannot do that without first acquiring skills.” WantFirstsEnjoySoundAudienceSkillsMusicianJazzNotesTheme Author:John Kao
“I would argue that the management of creativity requires a skill set that's relatively different from the traditional management skill set that is appropriate to a large, complex, industrial-era organization.” DifferentCreativitySkillsOrganizationManagementComplexesArguingTraditionalErasAppropriateManagement Skills Author:John Kao
“The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.” WayMeanIndividualProcessResultsDealsCreativitySupportCreativeEnvironmentSkillsDemandCreatingManagementPsychologicalLandscapeAtmosphereIntimateOutcomesCreative ProcessManagement Skills Author:John Kao
“I have argued that we need livelihood insurance, which would protect people against the risk of seeing their skills and expertise no longer needed. Such insurance could be offered by the private sector.” PeopleNeedsSeeingRiskNeededProtectSkillsExpertisePrivate SectorLivelihood Author:Robert J. Shiller
“Fashion was very important to me because I could practice my acting skills, I could practice working with the camera, I could work with amazing photographers. It just gave me a different field of work.” ImportantDifferentActingPracticeFashionFieldsSkillsCamerasPhotographer Author:Sergei Polunin
“I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you.” PeopleI CanHelpingSchoolDifferencesInfluencePolicyMaterialsSkillsDoctorsForeign PolicyEngineersProteinMalnutrition Author:Tom Hiddleston
“It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.” KindEasySkillsCynicalInterference Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.” TogetherFantasyRocksBandSkillsSittingDiscoveryBiggerGuitarAbout YourselfCampsBedroomRock And RollSitting AroundPlaying Guitar Author:Rob Halford
“My father was really good at having me stand on my own two feet, both financially and philosophically. His whole parenting philosophy was to give my brother and me the skills to be grown-ups and the curiosity to ask the right questions.” GivingTwoPhilosophyWholeAsksFatherMy OwnFeetBrotherSkillsCuriosityMy BrotherRight Questions Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.” ShouldFormWonderfulFineGeniusSkillsJokesGratefulTimingBe Grateful Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I feel it when I need to train and I do what I feel like I need to do. I don't get obsessed with one style or one skill.” NeedsFeelsStyleSkillsTrainObsessed Author:Conor McGregor
“There are people who have great skills, who do great things, but don't embody the whole animal that is the fight game like I do.” PeopleWholeFightingGamesAnimalSkillsGreat Things Author:Conor McGregor
“I think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.” ThinkingNightActorsAudienceSkillsVery GoodTheatreEvery Night Author:Ewan McGregor
“I do have investments, investments in new jobs, investments in education, skill training, and the opportunities for people to get ahead and stay ahead. That's the kind of approach that will work.” PeopleKindJobsOpportunitySkillsApproachTrainingInvestmentNew JobGet AheadInvestment In EducationSkills Training Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm reaching out to all Americans - Democrats, Republicans, and independents - because we need everybody to help make our country what it should be, to grow the economy, to make it fairer, to make it work for everyone. We need your talents, your skills, your commitments, your energy, your ambition.” NeedsShouldCountryHelpingEnergyGrowsEconomyTalentRepublicanSkillsAmbitionCommitmentDemocratOur CountryReachingReach Out Author:Hillary Clinton
“Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.” MeanSkillsFocusedCharmingManipulateObsessivePsychopath Author:Patrick Heusinger
“For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability, almost the certainty, of ad hoc, temporary, insecure and part-time work and unpaid 'trainee' pseudo-jobs deceitfully rebranded as 'practices' - all considerably below the skills they have acquired and eons below the level of their expectations.” FirstsWholeJobsFacesMemoriesLevelsClassPracticeSkillsExpectationsFirst TimeDebtCertaintyCrushTemporaryAdsGraduatesInsecureProbabilityPseudoPart TimeTrainees Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“I joined the Young Liberals when I was 16 and it was a good way for me to understand how the Liberal Party worked and to learn basic political skills and techniques.” WayYoungPoliticalPartySkillsTechniqueGood WayLiberal Party Author:George Brandis
“There is a section of our population in South Africa that you can't expect to get integrated in the economy of its own. These are people without skills and that will include young people who might very well have matric certificates, but don't have the skills to be absorbed in the economy. So we need to target people like those in a special way, in a focused way so that they have the skills and the capacity to participate in the economy. That requires special programmes.” PeopleWayNeedsWellsMightYoungEconomySpecialSkillsCapacitySouthPopulationFocusedTargetSouth AfricaSectionsIntegratedProgrammesCertificates Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsBigsCoursesGrowthEconomyDevelopmentSkillsCapacitySouthBoardsSouth AfricaConstraintsPrivate SectorShortage Author:Thabo Mbeki
“My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.” LightFatherPaintingSkillsPhotographerColourAttributesCompositionFormal Author:Patricia Piccinini
“To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLife IsLanguageEffortPracticeSkillsBasketballDo You KnowStrategicLife Is LikeLearning Language Author:Robert Greene
“You have a set of skills, a way of looking at the world, and often in childhood it was revealed to you by things that you were just kind of naturally drawn to.” WorldWayKindChildhoodSkills Author:Robert Greene
“There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingYearsWellsEndsHandsLanguageClearChildhoodSkillsSixComputerMathLawyerWay Of ThinkingElementalsSix Year OldsSpatial Author:Robert Greene
“I'm taking my skills to different people's homes that have stoves for it.” PeopleDifferentHomeSkillsDifferent PeoplesStoves Author:Snoop Dogg
“Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and education and ability and skills that some people may not be fortunate enough to acquire. But by sharing and inquiring, being a listener, and being interested in the stories of other people and their lives, I can also pull things out and say "What can I do for them? What can I share with them that may alleviate some of their suffering?"” PeopleFeelsMayPersonsI CanEnoughStoriesSufferingAbilityGroupsShareSkillsResourcesFortunateAcquireListenersAlleviateInquiring Author:Chath Piersath
“A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.” PeopleEndsMotivationSpaceSkillsBurnedBurned Out Author:Tenzin Palmo
“The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for really practicing Buddhism. At a certain point, as with learning any skill, we need personal instruction from someone who is more advanced than us.” ThinkingNeedsBookEndsCertainBuddhismInternetSkillsHelpfulInstruction Author:Tenzin Palmo
“One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people. "Wait - he beats women and seems like a Nazi, but he has impeccable grammar and keen reasoning skills and sings country music and can, from time to time, say or do something really funny?" It absolutely doesn't compute for them. I enjoy that immensely.” PeopleCountrySeemsWaitingEnjoyPleasureCareersSkillsBeatsReasoningNaziConfusingGrammarImpeccableGreatest PleasuresProfessional Career Author:Jim Goad
“I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose you might call a really bad superpower because it's just not very helpful. He is able to sense the connections between things and he's nearly always right, but the problem is that he never knows what to do with any of those messages that he receives from the universe, so he just acts on things and gets himself into terrible trouble, all the time.” ThinkingKnowsDoeProblemMightAbleUniverseTroubleWorstParticularTerribleSkillsMessagesConnectionsBrilliantHelpfulDetectivesSuperpowerDirk Gently Author:Samuel Barnett
“I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion.” CareersSonGratitudeSkillsPrivilegeAlbumsConclusionMy Son Author:Leonard Cohen
“[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.” ThinkingKindTodayBeautifulSkillsTunesComposerTranslateMagnificentChamberReally BeautifulChamber Music Author:Leonard Cohen
“Hillary Clinton said we need to bring back vocational education in high school. We need to support community colleges. We need to make sure that people who are not going to finish college have a job waiting for them and the skills to do the job. These are all - have become fairly standard Democratic policy positions.” PeopleNeedsSaidSchoolJobsWaitingCommunitySupportPolicyPositionCollegeSkillsStandardsHigh SchoolDemocraticClintonCommunity CollegeVocational Education Author:George Packer