“You're talking to investors - and investors, they look at you and they realize, you know, not every business they invest in are the founders or the people running it going to have every bit of skill - and I think they looked at me and realized, OK, this is a guy who's got a lot - I'm much older than the usual run of people they fund.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLooksRunningGuyBitsRealizingTalkingSkillsFundInvestorsUsualFounders Author:David Plotz
“I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players with way more skill than him, but there were very few people in the league that had the heart like him.” PeopleWayHeartTalkingPlayerSkillsAngelFormerLeagueNot TalkingShortstops Author:Bengie Molina
“You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.” PeopleWayHeartRealAbilityTalkingCreativityCreativePaintingSkillsFantasticBranchesCopiesGenesNew WaysCreative PeopleCopyingMemesReal Heart Author:Susan Blackmore
“Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.” NeedsFeelingsAbilityEmotionTalkingTeacherTeachingEmotionalSkillsComfortableIncludingLiteracyEmotional Literacy Author:Daniel Goleman
“I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”” PeopleSchoolYoungMy OwnTalkingStudentsSkillsProgramI RealizedMotivatedInstructorsLife Or DeathCompetenciesGed Author:Eric Thomas
“I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.” PeopleWellsMeanI CanStoriesTalkingFiguresJudgingSkillsJokesEggsGood Story Author:John Hodgman
“Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.” ChildrenNextTalkingWallSkillsCommunicateStudiosChinaMiceMickeyGreat Wall Author:John Hench
“When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill.” KnowsPresidentTalkingLike YouSkills Author:William J. Clinton
“I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill.” ThinkingChildrenParentTalkingTeacherSkillsStandardsGoldTestsImpressionDiagnosisInteractingClinicalsGold StandardAstuteClinicians Author:Gerald Fischbach
“The radio voice, you're in the studio, there's nobody around, and you're using your personality and enunciation skills to get the message across. At the stadium, there are vendors, there are people, the fans talking to each other. It's very difficult. If you were to speak as a radio disk jockey, no one would ever understand what you're saying.” PeopleIfsSpeakDifficultVoiceTalkingFansPersonalitySkillsMessagesRadioStudiosStadiumsJockeysDiskVendors Author:Charlie Brotman
“Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.” WellsMeanChildrenFactsKidsLanguageParentTalkingEnvironmentSkillsGenesTalkativeLanguage Skills Author:Steven Pinker
“Better be careful talking about how good my cooking is. Roslyn might get jealous.” The vampire madam let out a soft laugh. “Oh, I’ll freely admit that your cooking is much better than mine, Gin. But I have certain skills you don’t, especially in the bedroom. I think that Xavier far prefers those, even over a plate of the Pork Pit’s best barbecue.” Roslyn gave Xavier a sly look, and the giant’s grin widened. “Well played, Roslyn,” I murmured. “Well played.” ThinkingWellsLooksMightCertainTalkingLaughingMinesSkillsCookingCarefulVampireGiantsJealousBe CarefulPlatesBedroomPitsPorkGinBarbecueSlyGet Jealous Book:Spider's Revenge Source: Spider's Revenge
“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.” IfsSchoolOrderSoundEducationTalkingPracticeLearningTaughtBabySkillsListsClosetsSchooledTeaching ChildrenUnschoolingChildren LearningPredeterminedMemorizingProblems In School Book:Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success Source: Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success