“I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.” FirstsFatherSkillsSixWirePlugs Author:Gordon Bell
“I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.” YearsAbleGamesPlayerSkillsSixSpendingLeagueCoachingMinorsFacets Author:Ryne Sandberg
“No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.” PeopleIfsTwoAmericaLanguageDoubtSubjectsSkillsSixErrorsFollowingSentencesBeerNo DoubtTragicAgreementDeclineHighwaysTruckAlaskaVerbsSpellingSpongesGallonsSpillingLanguage Skills Author:Mike Nichols
“My first workout starts at 9:00 a.m. every morning. I'm in the gym from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. We do strength conditioning, stretching, pretty intense workouts in the morning. We go back in the gym at 1:00 p.m. and train until 5:00 p.m. It's all routines, repetition, doing the same skills over and over again, trying to polish and perfect everything. I head home, eat dinner, spend some time with my wife and start over the next day. I train about six days per week.” TryingFirstsHomeNextPerfectMorningWifeWeekSkillsSixTrainDinnerMy WifeIntenseGymEvery MorningRepetitionNext DayWorkoutPolishStarting OverConditioningStretching Author:Jonathan Horton
“Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.” HumansArtKidsGuyNumbersPracticeSkillsSixComputerArt IsRootsMathSecondsProfessorsSquaresHarveyCalculatorsSquare Roots Author:Bill Nye
“It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from then on. The cry for 'basic skills' practice is a smokescreen behind which schools pre-empt the time of children for twelve years and teach them the six lessons I've just taught you.” YearsWellsChildrenSelfEnoughKidsSchoolHoursBehindsTeachPracticeTeacherCryTaughtLessonsSkillsSixMathContactTwelveLiteracyTransmitMath Skills Author:John Taylor Gatto
“Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.” PeopleHardHoursCreativeAliveInspireSkillsSixDaughterAthleteMy DaughterGymnasticsCreative PeopleGymnast Author:Nathan East
“There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingYearsWellsEndsHandsLanguageClearChildhoodSkillsSixComputerMathLawyerWay Of ThinkingElementalsSix Year OldsSpatial Author:Robert Greene
“I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.” I CanRealPlaySkillsSixMusicianGuitarIntuitiveChordsTechnical Skills Author:Patti Smith
“Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingCountrySkillsSixPercentDoctorsGreenCardsCanadaEmsEducateVisaGreen Card Author:Michael Bloomberg