“The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.” WayWellsMayCreationSkillsEvidenceAreasFocusedSuperiorsConcentrationBrillianceOverlooked Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.” PeopleCareEarthThreeJusticeFiveFourTalentSkillsTrainingPercentHundredResourcesEnglandTwentiesWestIncludingLawyerMedicalNot SureGermanyJapanConcentrationOne TimeThree TimesNinetyTwenty OneMedical CareWest Germany Author:Jimmy Carter
“The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman” EffortQualitySeaSkillsDemandRiversWeightSizeFishesBoatDependentLakesFishingConcentrationMasteryFisherman Author:Charles Ritz
“Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.” EnergySkillsI RealizedConcentration Author:Ron Silver
“If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.” IfsWantFunnyComedySkillsConcentrationRelaxedCunning Author:David Mitchell
“The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.” RealValuesDesignProduceSkillsTestsMethodCodeConcentrationBugsInadequacyReal Value Author:Tony Hoare
“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.” PeopleGivingFactsSongNextSpeakBitsAbilityNumbersAudienceFocusStreetsStupidPlanetsSkillsOrdinaryGive MeSettingSettingsAcquireConcentrationRealisingPausesKeyboardsDisillusionNew SkillsAbility To Speak Author:Susan Schneider
“We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.” KnowsShouldMaySelfBodyGirlBoysSkillsUniqueSacredSexualityConcentrationCyclesPacePhasesEntrancesRigorSelf Contained Author:Naomi Wolf