“The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.” PersonsRealJobsHouseAbilityFireSecuritySkillsPaidIndependenceFundRetirementFurniture Book:Paddling my own canoe Source: Paddling my own canoe
“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
“If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.” IfsWritingYearsMatterHouseWhiteRepublicanSkillsDemocratWhite HouseBleak Author:J. C. Watts
“If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantNeedsTodayJobsHouseNumbersHugeSkillsToolsMachinesStoresBranchesGapsBubblesNailsHammersStarbucksCalculusRetailHuge Numbers Author:Thomas Friedman
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.” KnowsHas BeensHouseBlackDifferencesPoorMastersSkillsSurvivalToolsDefinitionsCirclesGenuineAcademicAcceptableThis SocietyForgedCrucible Author:Audre Lorde
“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.” HumansLittlesHouseWatchesSkillsCapacityDestructionCardsSandCastlesHouse Of CardsSand Castle Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.” IfsWellsI CanHandsHouseBreakWiseSkillsFinding YourselfAbandonedBricksBasementsPsychopathHandy Book:The Novels of Nora Roberts Source: The Novels of Nora Roberts