“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
“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.” SelfCareTodaySpiritualYoungCertainSocialCompassionDoubtFiveModernChildhoodEffectsDisciplineCivilizationSkillsDiseaseTraditionMethodDuesNo DoubtTemplesSurroundDeclineProtectedInitiativeInherentSelf DisciplinePresent DayPoisonousAvailabilityEarly ChildhoodCraftsmanshipStimulantsSpiritual Death Author:Kurt Hahn
“I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.” WorldYearsFoundEnjoyEconomyFiveSkillsI RealizedFive YearsExpectingPlayboyBusiness World Author:Christie Hefner
“It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.” StoriesTodayActorsImaginationFiveTalentDirectorsSkillsCraftsMovieSecondsFilmmakingCompellingInnovativeFormat Author:Michael Apted
“The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.” YearsAgeIndividualFiveTenSkillsTwentiesAssumptionReplacedObsoleteTwenty OneNew KnowledgeLearning NewNew SkillsLearning New Skills Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.” YearsFatherInterestFiveFourSkillsMusicalProfessionContactFive YearsFive Year Olds Author:Rokia Traore
“I think basketball has changed tremendously and for the better. I think that obviously the game is better. I think the skill of the players are better, the strength, the overall athleticism, the teamwork involved. I think coaching is better. We have more exposure for our game than ever. You know, our sport has grown significantly in really the last five years. It's pretty amazing.” ThinkingKnowsYearsLastsGamesSportsFivePlayerChangedInvolvedSkillsBasketballCoachingFive YearsTeamworkExposureLast Five YearsAthleticism Author:Pat Summitt
“The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.” BusinessStepsFiveTeachingSkillsObservationPreparationExplanationEmployeeSupervisionNew Skills Author:Bruce Barton
“In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.” KnowsWorldI CanSpeakFiveSkillsNormalNineRelateSpiteVintageSpeaks French Author:Johnny Weir
“Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.” WritingPersonsHandsRunningLyingWishFiveIgnoranceTruth IsSkillsJudgmentWeaponsOvercomingDifficultySpreadCombatManipulateSelectConcealedKeenness Book:Galileo Source: Galileo
“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
“This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name” ReasonPainRememberNamesPleasureFiveTenSkillsPercentHundredTwentiesLuckFiftyFifteenWill Power Author:Mike Shinoda
“Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?” I asked Dad, trying to sound torn over the decision. “Yes, list that. And don’t forget to write that you can eat an entire meal in under five minutes,” he replied. I laughed. It was true; I did tend to inhale my food. “Oh, the both of you! Why don’t you just write down that you’re an absolute heathen!” My mother went storming from the room.” ThinkingWritingTryingMotherSoundSleepAbilityDecisionForgetRoomsFiveMinutesSpecialDadSkillsAbsolutesListsMealsLaughedTornFive MinutesInhaleHeathen Author:Kiera Cass
“Five," she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. "Five?" Gabriel echoed blankly. "My rating," she said, and smiled at him. "Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice." "And you are willing to be my tutor?" "I should be very insulted if you chose another," Cecily said, and leaned up to kiss him again.” IfsShouldMaySaidPracticeFiveTalentWillingSkillsKissingLipsTechniqueNativeSteadyCheeksRatingInsultedGabrielTutorGabriel Lightwood Author:Cassandra Clare
“The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.” InspirationalMotivationalRunningSpiritSportsFiveStrengthSkillsTrainingAthleteSpeedMotivational SportsHockeyFormulasFitnessRunnersInspirational SportsAthleticInspirational RunningStaminaSportsmanshipMotivational Inspirational SportsTrack And FieldAthlete MotivationalStrength Of SpiritKeep RunningShort SportsShort Inspirational SportsGreat RunningCross Country RunningShort Motivational SportsInspirational RunnerAwesome SportsGreat Inspirational SportsRunning TrainingGreat Motivational SportsTrack RunningRunning TrackMotivational Cross Country RunningTrack RunnersAthletic InspirationalCross Country MotivationalInspirational TrackRunning FunnyStrength TrainingSports TrainingSports SpiritSkills DevelopmentTrack TeamGreat WorkoutInspirational TrainingTraining Partners Author:Ken Doherty