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“To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.”

Ideas Ends Lying Process Goal Skills Intellectual Concerned Overcoming Piety Efficacy Zealot Beginnings And Ends

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“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.”

Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson)

“Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work.”

Men Real Passion Energy Ability Pay Willing Skills Concerned Lawyer Enthusiasm Merit Altruism Profitable Very Deep Touch Me Energy And Enthusiasm

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.”

Children Art Self Values Process Ability Creativity Expression Skills Creating Art Is Concerned Discovering Exploring Soar Self Expression

Author:MaryAnn F. Kohl

“How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?”

Ifs Long Planets Offers Skills Concerned Tasks

Author:Jackson Browne

“Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.”

Firsts Enough Shows Wanted Sides Term Teaching Students Needed Skills Concerned Assuming I Realized Relate Good Enough Allies Providence Oakland

Author:Pedro Noguera

“You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.”

Matter Jobs Interest Common Becoming Citizens Skills Models Concerned Educational Critical Access Suburbs Common Good Educational System Public Interest Vanilla

Author:Cornel West

“When you play a serious role, as far as I'm concerned, I feel I'm using exactly the same skills, whatever they are, to play the role as you do with something more obviously comic. It's slightly different muscles, but the same skill set.”

Feels Different Play Roles Serious Skills Concerned Comic Muscles

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.”

People Writing Humans Human Nature Students Keys Reader Skills Concerned Insight Communicators

Author:William Bernbach

“I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing.”

I Can Skills Concerned Good Things Technical Skills

Author:David Byrne

“Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.”

Thinking Men Way Mind Art War Spirit Fighting Sleep Students Serious Skills Training Concerned Mere Satisfied Developing Art Of War Vagabonds

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War