“The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.” PeopleThinkingKnowsPerfectSkillsSmartTestsValuableUselessSatScoreNot PerfectKnowledgeableTest ScoresSat Scores Author:Virginia Postrel
“The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.” IfsArtUnderstandingListeningSkillsCuriousScoreSoloRequirementsChamberRespondingChamber Music Author:Wu Han
“In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse, was at least partly comprehensible to the English, who did not hesitate to take over hundreds of words from it: skirt, window, scrub, sky, give, hit, kick, scatter, scrape, skill, scowl, score, fellow, want, skin, knife, law, happy, ugly, wrong and even the pronouns they and them.” WantGivingLawLanguageNumbersSkyCenturySkillsWindowSkinsFellowsUglyKicksBritainScoreKnivesSkirtsLarge NumbersVikingsPronounsNorseScandinavia Author:Larry Trask
“People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.” PeopleWorldImportantSeemsWatchesSkillsWeightManagementBillsGolfInvestmentFuelScoreClientsEvaluationManagement SkillsInvestment Management Author:Warren Buffett