“If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.” IfsWorldLooksRealSkillsStructureRelatedThemeReal WorldVariationSymmetryAsymmetry Author:Dave Van Ronk
“Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.” MindSkillsDisasterTerroristWeatherRelatedAnticipationIncidentsPreparednessDisaster Preparedness Author:Bennie Thompson
“Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intimacy, folding laundry together or sharing the feeding of a child can have more impact than the most extravagant bouquet.” NeedsKindChildrenLittlesShowsTogetherRomanceSexUnderstandingTermPoorTeachSkillsAreasImpactAll KindsIntimacyRelatedIsolationBrutalSchedulesFeedingLittle TimeLaundryExtravagantAxesBouquetsFoldingDelirious Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can't ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.” IfsChildrenImportantLyingLanguageParentDifficultStudyTeacherStudentsCommunicationSkillsEmpathyTransformationExtraordinaryCommunicateRelateBotherRelatedCompassionatePreciseNonviolent CommunicationTeacher StudentDifficult Relationship Author:Bernie Glassman
“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.” YearsImportantMatterProcessInterestSupportLearningPiecesAliveChildhoodMiddleSubjectsParticularSkillsFindingsTechniqueRelatedGlowingSubject Matter Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“My background are acting, film production, directing, and I studied them for many years. Keep in mind that you need many other skills when you are starting any film project related to real life.” NeedsYearsMindRealFilmActingSkillsProjectsStartingProductionsReal LifeBackgroundsRelatedFilm Production Author:Tommy Wiseau
“The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us to endure struggle or boredom now in return for future rewards. The Eastern idea of practice, on the other hand, is to create the person, or rather to actualize or reveal the complete person who is already there.... Not only is practice necessary to art, it is art.” PersonsArtIdeasHandsPracticeStruggleReturnSkillsEthicsRewardsWesternEndureRelatedBoredomAcquireWork EthicEastern Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch
“I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.” ThinkingBelieveImportantI BelieveAbilitySkillsPatternsHeavyRecognitionPerceiveRelatedInvolvementAptitude Author:Linda Bradford Raschke
“I feel like I've got the skills to be at the top, I feel like I've got the mind-state, so basically what I'm saying is there's people all around me, there's artists all around me that are in my zone, but I still feel alone. I feel like I can't relate to them as much as I can related to maybe somebody that was a little bit higher up.” PeopleFeelsMindLittlesStillsI CanStatesArtistBitsHigherSkillsLittle BitRelateRelatedZone Author:SonReal
“Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.” WayWholeProcessAbilityViewsTechnologyCreativePsychologyEconomicTalentDesignCommunicationSkillsEconomicsComplexesPoint Of ViewRelatedVisualsAestheticAestheticsManualsTechnical Knowledge Author:Paul Rand