“I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.” YearsBuildingGrewSkillsGrew UpIncomeShopsTheatricalScenery Author:Nick Offerman
“There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.” ThinkingWorldWellsDoneUseTermCommunityBuildingProductsInvolvedSkillsCreatingGood ThingsConnectedBuilding A Business Author:Jeff Raikes
“I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.” ThinkingHandsEyeAbleBuildingSkillsAchievementModelsConstructionArchitectTransfersCoordination Author:Frank Gehry
“I think you can learn lots of skills playing football. Team building is one. You also learn how to solve problems within your team. Sometimes you find yourself playing with players that you don't necessarily like, but you have to put your differences aside for the good of the team. It gives you skills that you may not appreciate at the time.” ThinkingGivingMaySometimesProblemDifferencesPlayerTeamBuildingFootballSkillsAppreciateSolveFinding YourselfTeam BuildingFootball TeamPlaying Football Author:Hope Powell
“It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.” MenShouldWritingHas BeensBookFactsSeemsEnergyLostGenerationsTalentBuildingGeniusSkillsConcernedLifetimeLibraryPityBuyingCollectionsLabourHammersFuture GenerationRuthlessWriting A BookSaddestBuilding Up Book:The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)
“Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.” DifferentSelfSelf EsteemBuildingSourceSkillsLowsWeightSelf WorthEsteemDietsLow Self EsteemBuilding Up Author:Arabella Weir
“Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.” PeopleMayChildrenHardYoungWorkClassMiddleBuildingHard WorkSkillsStandingOur ChildrenSymbolsWealthyGood LifeLeisureEntitlementPublic ServiceOffspringInstillAffluentInclineSense Of Entitlement Author:David Elkind
“It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.” DifferentOrderProcessEconomyClearBuildingSkillsModelsImportanceCriticalFactorsArtisticMathematicalReasonableFacultyRelativeBehaviourSensitivityHypothesisSelectionEquationsExplaining Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.” HelpingPurposeRealizingLeadershipEffortGroupsTeamSpecialBuildingSkillsApproachEmpowermentExpertiseTeam BuildingTorchesDevelopers Book:The Language of leadership Source: The Language of leadership
“Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.” AttitudeTeachingBuildingSkillsExpectationsProgramMedicalMedical Education Author:Abraham Flexner
“If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building.” IfsTryingChallengesEffortBuildingCallingSkillsEssentialsAspectBenignUnsuccessful Author:Michael Josephson
“Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir. Why are you reading Tolkien?' I shrugged, then had to dodge the potted geranium he threw at me. 'After five hundred years, you've read just about everything. Besides, he had hella world-building skills.” WorldYearsEyeReadingFiveBuildingCoupleSkillsHundredWindowThirdsGoldenDodgeFudgeLedgesGolden Eye Author:Karen Chance