“In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.” PeopleKindJobsOrderLevelsMiddleHigherSkillsTrainingIncomeAcquisitionHigher LevelGet Ahead Author:Marco Rubio
“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
“I don't think you necessarily have to be the most perfected performer, in order to express your feelings. It's really those feelings that an audience connects with, I think, at least as much as perfected technical skill.” ThinkingFeelingsOrderAudienceSkillsPerformersTechnical Skills Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.” PeopleThinkingGivingHas BeensMadeMatterOrderOpportunityWishLeadershipStudySkillsTrainingIndependentManagementDataAcquireInitiativeIndependent Thinking Author:Mary Parker Follett
“A constant tension exists between an individual's interests, personal needs, and skills, and what the organization requires of her. We've all asked ourselves, How much of my own agenda should I sacrifice in order to help the rest of the staff meet the company's goals?” NeedsShouldHelpingOrderIndividualGoalInterestMy OwnCompanySacrificeSkillsOrganizationConstantTensionAgendasShould IStaffPersonal Needs Author:Pat Heim
“It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.” DifferentOrderProcessEconomyClearBuildingSkillsModelsImportanceCriticalFactorsArtisticMathematicalReasonableFacultyRelativeBehaviourSensitivityHypothesisSelectionEquationsExplaining Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.” WayPastOrderPassionGoalRiskShareEconomicCenturyCreationReaderProudSkillsMembersEconomicsTraditionFunctionInstitutionsFinancialPhilosopherBrilliantAppealsAnalysisOur SocietyCompellingWorldlyImaginativeFinancial InstitutionsUnknown Future Author:Peter L. Bernstein
“I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that.” ThinkingHas BeensStoriesAbleOrderAbilitySkillsHappeningsScientistExcited Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.” NeedsGivingFactsUseOrderGrowsDealsPracticeTechnologyProduceProductsSkillsOppositesBlindPlantHungerSeedsArguingEmpoweringWeedFarmsChemicalsFarmersFertilityGmos Author:Anna Lappe
“Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during the South Asian tsunami. In some villages it was 3 to 1. And that was party because of the average strength it takes to hold onto something. Also it was cultural; women were less likely to know how to swim, as were children. So much of this is based on how we develop our own survival skills before something goes wrong: Even if nothing goes wrong, it might be good to know how to swim.” IfsKnowsChildrenMightOrderDiesPartyKnow HowSkillsSurvivalSouthAverageBe GoodSwimVillageAsianTsunamiSurvival Skills Author:Amanda Ripley
“And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.” WorldNeedsLooksOrderCreativeSucceedSkillsOrder To Succeed Author:Robert Sternberg
“I have a brother who practiced every bit as much as I did, but he never made pro. In order to make it as a pro you have to develop your God-given skills.” MadeOrderGivenBitsBrotherSkills Author:Pat LaFontaine
“I'm working hard to be president of the United States.I'm running to change things, and I'm not going to be part of the political class in Washington, D.C. I have the skills to disrupt the old order and bring about a new culture.” HardStatesRunningPoliticalOrderCulturePresidentUnitedClassUnited StatesSkillsNew Cultures Author:Jeb Bush
“Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.” StatesHappensFacesOrderEnergyProcessGoalChallengesAttentionConsciousnessFocusAchieveSkillsFlowRealisticPsychicsInner LifeOptimalChallenges We FaceRealistic GoalsAchieving Happiness Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.” PeopleFactsLyingOrderRecordsSkillsLaysAssumingSellingBuyingShopsMailVirgins Author:Richard Branson
“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.” PeopleWholeAbleOrderUniverseDealsNiceStrangeProtectSkillsConsciousShadowCapacityInfiniteChaosContemplationComplexityEntityGlancesCarolsStrange PlacesRecursionStrange Times Book:Mostly Harmless Source: Mostly Harmless
“Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.” OrderCreativePlansSkillsFlowBe CreativePathwaysLearning NewNew SkillsLearning New Skills Author:Philippa Perry
“I do believe that India is a unique case. And you need I think exceptional skills I think to incorporate Indian into the world nuclear order.” ThinkingWorldNeedsBelieveOrderCasesSkillsUniqueIndiaNuclearExceptional Author:Manmohan Singh
“Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That's a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar.” NeedsLongHas BeensFactsLastsOrderIssuesAirDisciplineSkillsLong TimeGuitarDecadesSloppyImprovisingMemorizationAir Guitar Author:John Medina
“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.” IfsSchoolOrderSoundEducationTalkingPracticeLearningTaughtBabySkillsListsClosetsSchooledTeaching ChildrenUnschoolingChildren LearningPredeterminedMemorizingProblems In School Book:Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success Source: Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success