“How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.” KnowsBuddhismSkillsLowsLuckKarmaEnlightenedRamaHigh Places Author:Frederick Lenz
“Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.” DifferentSelfSelf EsteemBuildingSourceSkillsLowsWeightSelf WorthEsteemDietsLow Self EsteemBuilding Up Author:Arabella Weir
“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.” WorldNeedsGivingYearsWellsChildrenAgeAbleSchoolParentSuccessfulStudentsCollegeNeededHabitSkillsLateLowsIntelligentComplexesPatternsHeavyPlanningBackgroundsIncomeSettingSettingsTwelveLoadParticipationDeficitAssignmentsThirteenElementary SchoolCollege StudentsLow Income Book:School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project
“Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility” PeopleSelfActionLevelsViewsActivitySkillsLowsRegardConvictionDeterminedOutcomesJudgedFutilityEfficacySelf EfficacyDemoralizing Author:Albert Bandura
“Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.” WarRememberNationsPeaceSkillsAuthorityLowsCustomsSparesMaking PeaceHaughty Author:Virgil
“Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.” PeopleImaginationEasierSkillsLowsPriorities Author:Denis Waitley
“My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.” MomentsStylePoliticianSkillsAuthorityLowsMy FriendsCriticsPublic SpeakingSchwarzeneggerRhetoricalCriticiseCyborg Author:Boris Johnson
“NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.” RealityTodayJobsLevelsTechnologyEconomySkillsCreatingLowsProductivityOur FutureCompetingGlobalizationNew TechnologyLow LevelNafta Author:John F. Kerry
“In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.” WorldWarTodayJobsGivenResultsPayFourCostSkillsLowsPaidCompetitionWorkersInternationalDecadesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiManufacturingPremiumSkilled Workers Author:Christina Romer
“Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a small hint of fang. Sophronia grinned back. "I'm glad we understand each other, sir." The vampire looked out into the night. "This is the right finishing school for you, isn't it, whot?" "Yes sir, I think it might very well be." "A piece of advice, Miss Temminnick?" "Sir?" "It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you." "Now, sir, I thought you didn't see any soot.” ThinkingWellsMightSchoolNightTeachPiecesAdviceMissingSkillsLowsDressesGladVampireProfessorsHintsFinishingFangsFinishing School Author:Gail Carriger