“Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.” PeopleInfluenceSkillsAuthorityPersonal Influence Author:James Hunter
“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.” MenYearsTwoHomeLastsAmericaPastUsedFatherParentTermGenerationsSkillsAuthorityHundredDefinedPrimariesMaking MoneyMasculinityInvolvementOver The PastFathering Author:Frank Pittman
“Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.” IfsMenImportantEnoughFatherCompanyAcceptingEffectsGoes OnSkillsAuthorityModelsFunctionRelaxRequirementsManhoodMasculinityMasculineModelingOur FatherDiploma Author:Frank Pittman
“If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement. De Revolutionibus Coelestibus” IfsShouldPurposeValuesChanceSkillsAuthorityMathematicsDareScriptureIgnorantJudgementPretendingPassagesMathematicianHypothesisScornCensureInconsiderate Author:Nicolaus Copernicus
“Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.” WarRememberNationsPeaceSkillsAuthorityLowsCustomsSparesMaking PeaceHaughty Author:Virgil
“My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.” MomentsStylePoliticianSkillsAuthorityLowsMy FriendsCriticsPublic SpeakingSchwarzeneggerRhetoricalCriticiseCyborg Author:Boris Johnson
“Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.” PeopleNeedsLittlesLawYoungPositionTruth IsSkillsAuthorityLaw EnforcementEnforcementIn-laws Author:Patricia Arquette
“For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.” MenWorldWantBelievePhilosophyI BelieveInterestSpecialSkillsAuthorityExpertsRevivalRiddleScience And PhilosophyPersonal Knowledge Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery