“Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.” TryingCountryJobsSkillsTrainingResourcesWesternWorkforcePennsylvaniaNew SkillsJob Training Author:Bill Shuster
“The Lord has made available in our day remarkable resources that enable you to learn about and love this work that is sparked by the Spirit of ElijahIt is no coincidence that FamilySearch and other tools have come forth at a time when young people are so familiar with a wide range of information and communication technologies. Your fingers have been trained to text and tweet to accelerate and advance the work of the Lord-not just to communicate quickly with your friends. The skills and aptitude evident among many young people today are a preparation to contribute to the work of salvation.” PeopleHas BeensMadeTodayYoungSpiritLordTechnologyInformationCommunicationSkillsResourcesToolsAnd LoveSalvationFingersCommunicateAvailableWideFamiliarPreparationRangeRemarkableCoincidenceEvidentTweetAccelerateAptitudeCommunication TechnologyInformation And Communication Author:David A. Bednar
“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.” PeopleCareEarthThreeJusticeFiveFourTalentSkillsTrainingPercentHundredResourcesEnglandTwentiesWestIncludingLawyerMedicalNot SureGermanyJapanConcentrationOne TimeThree TimesNinetyTwenty OneMedical CareWest Germany Author:Jimmy Carter
“The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.” CountryForceNumbersPayEconomicSkillsTaxesResourcesWorkersProductivityOur CountryLuxuryContributionExpensiveExpensesUnemploymentLarge NumbersTreasuryAmerican WorkersEconomic Resources Author:Lane Kirkland
“The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.” KnowsWorldNeedsKindPersonsHelpingBodyIndividualSkillsResourcesBurdenAccess Author:Alva Noe
“Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results.” PeopleResultsEnvironmentProduceSkillsOrdinaryResourcesExtraordinaryOrdinary PeopleSkills And Knowledge Author:Kevin Eikenberry
“We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.” AbilitySituationSkillsResourcesLuckDistanceLandscapeUnderestimateInteriorsTemperamentUnspokenUnnoticed Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“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
“The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.” FactsUseFeelingsAbilityEmotionMinutesSkillsBenefitsResourcesGood FeelingLater In LifePositive Emotions Author:Barbara Fredrickson
“It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.” MindMayTwoSelfSometimesShowsRememberSidesTroubleSeaWindSkillsDrawsOrdinaryResourcesSightBottomCalmWaveSurfacePeacefulLife ChangingEnlightenedHelpfulRoughGlimpseCoinsTwo SidesTimes Of TroublePeaceful Mind Author:Tulku Thondup
“It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the voiceless, or leverage their talents, skills, knowledge, and resources to put more children into classrooms, or pressure their elected representatives to get global education top of the agenda.” ChildrenUseSocialVoiceCommunityTalentMediaSkillsCreatingResourcesPressureSocial MediaAgendasClassroomRepresentativesBehalfSocial ChangeVoiceless Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“BRICS must provide a united and clear voice in shaping a peaceful, balanced and stable world. We must harness each other's strengths, in knowledge, skills and resources.” WorldVoiceUnitedClearSkillsResourcesIndiaPeacefulStableBalancedGovernanceHarnessBrics Author:Narendra Modi
“People, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn these resources into useful products and services. If we do a good job, customers pay us more for our products than the sum of our costs in producing and distributing them. This difference, our profit, represents the value we add to the resources we utilize.” PeopleIfsJobsValuesTurnsDifferencesPayMaterialsProductsCostSkillsResourcesAddProfitAvailableCustomersGood JobFacilityConducting Author:David Packard
“All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of Adelaide, for example, which is overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne, I discovered a number of experts in the penal system. I advised them to work with these special skills.” PeopleAbilityNumbersCitiesSpecialExampleKeysSkillsResourcesExpertsAustralianSydneyMelbourneAdelaide Author:Charles Landry
“You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.” NeedsLongEmotionalProductsRevolutionSkillsCreatingHundredResourcesDistanceShipsMultipleYardsLong DistanceStaminaChurningTriathlon Author:Guy Kawasaki
“You turn on the shower or you do whatever, but especially right now with the drought in California, there are so many resources that we are depleting so quickly. And so, I thought it would be an interesting skill set to have if something were to go down, or even if it weren't. It's not post-apocalyptic idealism. It's more just like a fun hobby.” IfsWould BeTurnsFunInterestingRight NowSkillsResourcesPostsCaliforniaShowersHobbiesIdealismTurn-onApocalypticDroughtPost Apocalyptic Author:Shailene Woodley
“Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsPersonsMomentsCan DoBrainCasesCryMonthsDrugSkillsDemandResourcesMiracleShameAssumingOperationsAcquireExpensiveWealthySurgerySurgeonsScarceWithin ReachSupply And DemandBrain SurgeryScarce Resources Author:Leonard Read
“Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and education and ability and skills that some people may not be fortunate enough to acquire. But by sharing and inquiring, being a listener, and being interested in the stories of other people and their lives, I can also pull things out and say "What can I do for them? What can I share with them that may alleviate some of their suffering?"” PeopleFeelsMayPersonsI CanEnoughStoriesSufferingAbilityGroupsShareSkillsResourcesFortunateAcquireListenersAlleviateInquiring Author:Chath Piersath
“We have been at the matter of police pay for some time. Indeed, the Minister of Safety and Security and the National Commissioner of Police have raised this matter. Treasury has been looking at it and the Public Service and Administration Minister has been looking at it. It is a matter with which we are engaged, the salaries issue, as well as the resource question with regard to vehicles and, and all other matters, including the skills issues.” WellsHas BeensMatterPayIssuesSecuritySkillsResourcesPoliceRegardSafetyRaisedIncludingAdministrationMinistersEngagedVehicleSalaryPublic ServiceTreasurySafety And SecurityCommissioners Author:Thabo Mbeki
“A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.” NeedsTodayEconomySuccessfulFocusEconomicDevelopmentCostSkillsResourcesAreasStrategyAvailableThriveImprovingReducingGlobal EconomyWorkforceEconomic DevelopmentWorld Economy Author:Rod Blagojevich
“Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.” PeopleDifferentTogetherSocialLevelsRolesLandEvolutionSkillsResourcesRaisesTradeHumankindEfficiencyCompeting Author:Julian Baggini
“In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.” RealTurnsActorsImaginationRoomsDirectorsSkillsResourcesQuartersRehearsal Author:Stephen Lang
“God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.” MenWorldLooksStillsEarthLastsLeftRocksHavensSkillsResourcesAdversityCloudsStormOilDrivenLook UpElectricityUnfinishedStorms Of Life Author:George MacDonald