“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 today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.” WorldWellsEnoughTodayJobsSituationSkillsStrategyCome UpBusiness World Author:Rob Payne
“As a skilled psychologist, Dr. Reznick draws from her wealth of experience to offer children and parents a treasure trove of skills to relieve stress. She presents well-written, easy-to-follow tools to use in every situation. From visualization techniques to breathing exercises, Dr. Reznick taps the power of a child's imagination to ensure kids achieve peace and success.” WellsChildrenUseKidsEasyParentImaginationWealthSituationWrittenAchieveExerciseOffersSkillsDrawsToolsStressTechniqueTreasureBreathingDrsPsychologistVisualizationChildren And ParentsWell WrittenStress RelievingChildren's Imagination Author:Judith Orloff
“In most cases an act of unwelcome sex is no more bother than being vaccinated, so there's no point going on about it as if it werea fate worse than death. With skill and good manners you can avoid having to make the sacrifice, but should you find yourself in a compromising situation largely of your own making, you should stop defending your virtue and start worrying about your maturity. It will give you something to think about while the savage pumper bangs away.” IfsThinkingGivingShouldSexSituationCasesWorryVirtueFateSacrificeSkillsAbuseCompromiseMannersBotherMaturityFinding YourselfGood ManSavagesBangsNo PointGood MannersUnwelcome Author:Quentin Crisp
“My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.” BelieveDifferentI BelieveMistakeSituationIndustryActivitySkillsLimitsProjectsUnderstoodInvestingBackgroundsSpheresMy MistakesBackground Knowledge Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.” TryingHumansEndsJobsCoursesActorsCan DoLinesActingSituationJourneyDivineSkillsProfoundTelling The TruthMapsScreenwriters Author:Paul Greengrass
“I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it.” ThinkingOpportunitySituationLuckySkillsFortunateAviationExposureGreat AviationSo LuckyAviatorFormer Friends Author:Bob Hoover
“A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.” KindIndividualChallengesLinesResultsQualitySituationTeamSkillsJudgmentPerformancesEducationalSpeedCombinationGet BetterCollectionsTeamworkMultipleResponsivenessIndividual Performance Author:John Katzenbach
“Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanRealAbilitySituationDevelopmentSkillsReal WorldDealing With People Author:Oliver DeMille
“Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to you Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter Fail often Ship Lead, don't manage so much Seek out uncomfortable situations Make an impact on the people who matter to you Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else Copyedit less, invent more Give more speeches Ignore unsolicited advice” PeopleGivingArtImportantMatterResultsSituationFailingAdviceSkillsSpeechBlindAngryImpactShipsManageUncomfortableMetricsUncomfortable SituationsUnsolicited Advice Author:Seth Godin
“The health of your family or your office or your city directly affects the health of it after. The better you are at handling high-stress situations with little information, those skills lead to resilience and the ability to recover afterward.” LittlesAbilityCitiesSituationInformationSkillsOfficeStressResilienceOur Family Author:Amanda Ripley
“The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.” WayMeanPersonsMatterAbilitySituationRightsFineFitSkillsPerceptionSolutionsOriginalsDefinedSensitiveMutualDelicateNegotiationIntuitiveHarmoniousTactTactilePersonal Matter Author:J. Oswald Sanders
“There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.” IfsKnowsMeanMadeLife IsEasySidesSituationStudySkillsNotionExtremesBuddhistPreparationThemeDemonMapsTerritoryPersistentBasketsMantrasPicnicsPackingSniffingPreparation For DeathSaying LifePicnic Baskets Author:Terence McKenna
“There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.” WorldMomentsCharacterHappensGuyFunStuffInterestingSituationWatchesHappenedCrazySkillsOrdinaryExtraordinaryThings HappenOddShyOur WorldCrazy Things Author:Todd Farmer
“The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of how to produce it and place it so that it works in a space. The first consideration is adopting the space and having work that resonates in the space.” FirstsSoundSpaceSituationProduceMaterialsListeningSkillsConsiderationAdopting Author:Pauline Oliveros
“Knowledge is the understanding of what, how and why we need to do something. Skill is applying that knowledge in a practical situation. Attitude is the desire to transform our knowledge into skills and ultimately into habits.” NeedsDesireUnderstandingAttitudeSituationHabitSkillsPracticals Book:The Disney Way:Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, Third Edition Source: The Disney Way:Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, Third Edition
“I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.” PeopleAbilitySituationHumourSkillsIronySurvivorSuperficialResilient Author:Amy Tan
“Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering his position and the situation on the personality market. He is alienated from himself, from his fellow men and from nature. His main aim is profitable exchange of his skills, knowledge, and of himself, his "personality package" with others who are equally intent on a fair and profitable exchange. Life has no goal except the one to move, no principle except the one of fair exchange, no satisfaction except the one to consume.p97.” MenShouldMovingEnergyGoalSituationPrinciplesModernPositionPersonalitySkillsHighestFairsAimFellowsInvestmentProfitSatisfactionTransformedConsideringCommodityFellow ManPackagesProfitableModern ManArt Of Loving Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.” ThinkingTryingSaidRealProblemMightFoundFatherEffortSituationWonderSeeingSkillsReflectionMusicalNoiseLoudDeafAvoidedSelf ReflectionDespisedReal ProblemsFlutesWinceHyacinthsLoud Noises Author:Megan Whalen Turner