“Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.” WorldShouldWritingArtWholeFormEnjoyInterestCommunityInterestingQualityClassSkillsShould HavePaintObjectivesRangeConcertsSoleEarningGalleryWorld ClassArt GalleriesEarning Money Author:Goh Chok Tong
“What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.” GivingIdeasFormHumanityAbilitySkillsPerceptionInsightVisuals Author:Richard Schmid
“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.” FirstsChildrenUseAbleFormReadingWishEducationStepsLearningCenturyPoliticianFutureSkillsGainsUltimateTwentiesInvestmentEducationalPrioritiesFirst StepsLiteracyAutonomyIlliteracyChildren LearningUnesco Author:Irina Bokova
“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.” IfsNeedsFormYoungOrderCultureLanguageSocialAttitudeEnvironmentChildhoodSkillsBasesComplexesMediumsNurtureIndispensableSegregationTriggersUnnaturalLanguage LearningSocial Environment Author:Neil Postman
“There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.” IfsFormPerfectNumbersSkillsStressAccentsFormalRhymePuzzlesSyllablesCrosswords Author:Carl Sandburg
“In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.” ShouldMindArtSelfEnoughFormUsedForceAwarenessTaughtPureSkillsDemandGainsProtectionIntenseMartial ArtsAggressionDefenceWantonSelf DefencePersonal Gain Author:David Fontana
“Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body, the use of which requires personal skill. Artificial flight by a single individual is the proper beginning for all species of artificial flight, as the necessary conditions can most easily be fulfilled when man flies individually.” MenMayMeanUseBodyFormIndividualConditionsSkillsSpeciesFlightDefinedAviationArtificialFulfilled Author:Otto Lilienthal
“In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.” KnowsKindImportantWisdomFormPoliticsNationsNaturalWealthTechnologyKnow HowEconomyLandParticularBecomingSkillsResourcesPossessionOur TimeLiberalismOwnershipNatural Resources Author:Pope John Paul II
“Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.” FormHouseDarkSkillsBeatsWoundsPostsThrillingFrontiersHollowVisionaries Author:Laird Barron
“I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.” WantNeedsYearsMayProblemJobsFormEducationClassFourMiddleCenturyFashionBrokenHigherSkillsDegreesMiddle ClassFour Years21st CenturyEducation SystemHigher Education Author:Marco Rubio
“I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.” KnowsGivingShouldWritingTryingDifferentStoriesUseShowsFeelingsWantedMovingFormCoursesFunChancePerfectNiceMinutesFieldsSkillsGive MePresentingDoing YouShowing OffPlaying FieldsMusic Writing Author:Eric Idle
“It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.” PeopleThinkingIdeasFormHeavenBornCreativeHonestGeniusDisciplineSkillsTradeStartingSubmitStarting OutCreative IdeasTechnical Skills Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.” IfsDoneWholeFormProcessPiecesEffectsProductsSkillsPhotographyMassEnormousPropagandaDevicesDocumentsWork DoneAgitation Author:John Heartfield
“Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.” FormPassionSkillsUltimateCollaboration Author:Ian Somerhalder
“It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were experts in foreshortening and perspective. The technical skill and visual effects of painters like Uccello have to be admired. They achieved a level of artistry that has never been surpassed, in my opinion.” ArtDifferentFormDifficultLevelsOpinionEffectsCenturyStyleMastersPerspectiveSkillsPainterExpertsVisualsArtistryTechnical SkillsIconographyVisual Effects Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.” PeopleKnowsArtPlayTodayFormGamesChallengesFocusBattleSkillsJokesCatRapRapperSkillful Author:Nick Cannon
“If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.” PeopleIfsThinkingProblemBigsTogetherFormEasySkillsWorking TogetherCollaborationBackwardsBig Problems Author:Edward Boyden
“Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.” ShouldFormWonderfulFineGeniusSkillsJokesGratefulTimingBe Grateful Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that in four years, I will get more Americans, as many as I possibly can, the opportunity and access to some form of post-secondary education. I want more of them to graduate high school with the skill-set of post-secondary education and I want more of them to be able to obtain that post-secondary education. This is the only way we are going to close the income gap.” IfsWayWantYearsMadeRunningAbleSchoolFormOpportunityPresidentSimpleFourPromiseSkillsHigh SchoolAccessCampaignsIncomePostsGapsPresident ObamaFour YearsGraduatesI PromiseSecondary Education Author:Thomas Friedman
“These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.” HardKidsFormYoungFrontsTaughtAdventureTvsSkillsScreensThese DaysEpicLaptopsSo Sad Author:John Lydon
“The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.” WorldArtIdeasMatterReasonFormSubjectsColorSkillsOriginalsSurfaceScalesCompositionClicheSubject MatterArt World Author:Jerry Saltz
“I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.” ThinkingWayRealRememberFormCommonKindnessGraceSkillsGoodnessOrdinaryTasksInspiredSimplicitySaintRoutineUsualReverenceObscurityOrdinary LifePeacefulness Author:Thomas Merton