“I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.” WritingYearsFirstsCharacterStoriesWould BeImaginationFictionNovelSubjectsSkillsResearchUselessArticlesReportersMy ImaginationProfile Author:Amy Waldman
“If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.” IfsBookWould BeRunningSchoolFoundTeachingCollegeSkillsEntrepreneurMindsetTraditionalAntidoteBureaucratsCollege Education Author:Scott Banister
“How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!” PeopleIfsLifeWould BeInterestingSkillsInteresting Life Book:Prose Fancies Source: Prose Fancies
“The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.” IfsLittlesSometimesWould BeLawCasesHeardSkillsIntelligentEducatedLayman Author:George Sutherland
“I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.” ThinkingWritingMayMatterWould BeReadingForceDealsTeachNiceWonderfulReaderGeniusSkillsLustBeing NiceGlowingAvidImmersion Author:Tanith Lee
“I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.” PeopleKnowsMayEnoughWould BeLyingRealizingPlanetsSkillsSmartFemaleTendenciesProgrammersBiased Author:Erik Naggum
“Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.” IfsYearsWellsPersonsWould BeWantedWalksStepsMillionsDesignWalkingSkillsComplicatedBillionsSoftwareRobotsCalculationsEvery Step Author:David Pogue
“I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsEndsWould BeFilmTurnsActorsKnowingWonderfulParticularSkillsProjectsScriptsLuxuryTomsCruiseGreat Film Author:Jonny Lee Miller
“There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage” PeopleWorldShouldStatesProblemWould BeFacesLiteratureHalfTeachClearDangerousSkillsCapacitySatisfiedCartoonCrudeDegeneratesDrearyAcknowledgementApproximationPictorialRelapse Author:A. D. Patel
“It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .” Would BeAbilityAttitudeFitSkillsPatternsMasculinePretensePretensionSkills And Abilities Author:Arianna Huffington
“No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.” ThinkingWorldShouldChildrenWould BeIndividualSexImaginationSpecialSkillsBehaviorPatternsPossessedPrecisionVividness Author:Margaret Mead
“My solution would be to bridge the skills gap, such as coal to gas training, you have to give people a sense of hope that they have the tools to be able to diversify and stay in the community where they wish to live.” PeopleGivingWould BeAbleWishCommunitySkillsSolutionsTrainingToolsBridgesGasGapsCoal Author:Shelley Moore Capito
“I used to feel this need to prove to people that I can do something dramatic. But, the truth is that I don't know if I can. I don't think I have it in my skill set. It would be great, but I do love making comedies. It's been so much fun for me, and I hope that I can continue to do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsI CanWould BeUsedFunCan DoComedyTruth IsSkillsProveDramaticCan Do SomethingLove Making Author:Anna Faris
“I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.” IfsWould BeAbleSkills Author:Megan Fox
“If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.” IfsWould BeBornGenerationsSkillsMembersDancingSingersDancerRapper Author:Yesung
“My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.” WholeMomentsWould BeGamesSleepHeroSkillsTechniqueIdolsMy HeroHolland Author:Rafael van der Vaart
“The government would devote all its effort to empower the poor and give them strength to fight poverty. Skill development would be accompanied by the spirit of Shrameva Jayate.” GivingGovernmentWould BeSpiritFightingPoorEffortPovertyDevelopmentSkillsIndiaEmpoweringGovernanceSkills Development Author:Narendra Modi
“Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.” YearsHas BeensWould BeDealsClassStudentsWillingHugeAmountCoupleSkillsMeetingsWho I AmCardsNovelistsEtcFacultyHonoredInvitedLectures Author:Neal Stephenson
“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
“At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.” IfsNeedsWould BeJobsForceRiskSkillsComplexesRateGradesStableCompositionPercentagesOversimplification Author:Alan Greenspan
“You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and then you'll have the money to do the kind of writing you want to do"? I always say that I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that. It would be just as hard for me to do that kind of writing as it would be to learn how to do any number of productive careers that I can't manage to make myself do.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingKindI CanHardWould BeRomanceNumbersCareersNovelKnow HowSkillsSellsBunchManageProductiveCopiesRomance Novel Author:Lucy Corin
“The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and behaviors they need to be effective in getting things done, we tell them almost the opposite - blandishments about how we wish people would be, and how we wish workplaces were. That information is worse than useless as, to the extent people believe it, they often wind up losing their jobs.” PeopleNeedsBelieveDoneWould BeJobsWishViewsInformationWindIndustrySkillsBehaviorLosingOppositesUselessBarriersWorkplaceThings DoneEffective LeadershipGetting Things Done Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“How do we create jobs for so many Americans who are feeling pushed out, not just left out, pushed out of the modern economy. Obviously it's skills and education. But it's also jobs. So if I could do anything it would be to take this moment in time that we've got when, yes, our recovery is better, we've had steadier growth, I don't think President [Barack] Obama frankly gets the credit he deserves for the kind of steady hand that he and his advisers apply to moving through that really dangerous period.” IfsThinkingKindMomentsFeelingsHandsWould BeJobsMovingLeftGrowthPresidentEconomyModernDangerousPeriodsSkillsDeserveCreditRecoveryBarackIf I CouldSteadyPresident Barack ObamaMoments In TimeLeft OutAdviserSteady Hands Author:Hillary Clinton
“Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.” SometimesGovernmentWould BeHappenedSkillsDirectTransfers Author:Hillary Clinton
“I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingMadeWould BeNamesFunWatchesCreativeIdentitySkillsCoreMade ItIf I CouldDozenSuperheroCreative WorkTechnical Skills Author:Kurt Busiek
“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club” PeopleKnowsWantKindCountryHelpingHandsSeemsWould BePoliticalNightKnow HowEconomyFireCarRepublicanSkillsManagementDemocratClubsUglyManageBotherFlatsPantsTireReluctantCountry ClubsCeleryManagement Skills Book:Dave Barry Turns Forty Source: Dave Barry Turns Forty
“Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.” PeopleImportantWould BeSkillsMeetingsSocializingLike Being Alone Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.” IfsI CanBodyWould BeHalfFieldsSkillsAncientChristmasCoveredTapeDefectsWrapsMotorEgyptianScotchMummyPharaohsAncient EgyptianScotch Tape Author:Dave Barry