“I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'” WantYearsDoneRegretShapesSkillsWake UpI RegretLife Regret Author:Georges St-Pierre
“I think basketball has changed tremendously and for the better. I think that obviously the game is better. I think the skill of the players are better, the strength, the overall athleticism, the teamwork involved. I think coaching is better. We have more exposure for our game than ever. You know, our sport has grown significantly in really the last five years. It's pretty amazing.” ThinkingKnowsYearsLastsGamesSportsFivePlayerChangedInvolvedSkillsBasketballCoachingFive YearsTeamworkExposureLast Five YearsAthleticism Author:Pat Summitt
“There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem solving machinery grew up under conditions of consistent, strenuous physical activity. It makes sense that when we don't recreate the environments in which the organ was forged, we get a loss of function. And that when we do restore those environments, we get that function back. The effects of aerobic exercise on executive function skills is a powerful empirical example of this idea.” WorldYearsIdeasProblemLossPowerfulEnvironmentConditionsEffectsExampleGrewExerciseActivitySkillsGrew UpFunctionMake SenseConsistentExecutivesOrgansProblem SolvingMachineryForgedPhysical Activity Author:John Medina
“Over the years, there's been case after case when there were very narrow decisions that had to be made about whether to launch nuclear weapons in serious cases. What is this guy [Donald Trump] going to do if his vaunted negotiating skills fail, if somebody doesn't do what he says? Is he going to say, "Okay we'll nuke them? We're done?"” IfsYearsMadeDoneGuyDecisionCasesFailingSeriousTrumpSkillsWeaponsOkayNuclearNuclear WeaponsThis GuyNegotiatingNukes Author:Noam Chomsky
“If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that in four years, I will get more Americans, as many as I possibly can, the opportunity and access to some form of post-secondary education. I want more of them to graduate high school with the skill-set of post-secondary education and I want more of them to be able to obtain that post-secondary education. This is the only way we are going to close the income gap.” IfsWayWantYearsMadeRunningAbleSchoolFormOpportunityPresidentSimpleFourPromiseSkillsHigh SchoolAccessCampaignsIncomePostsGapsPresident ObamaFour YearsGraduatesI PromiseSecondary Education Author:Thomas Friedman
“I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?” YearsChildrenSexParentCoupleFitSkillsRaisesCommittedIncomeCuriousUnmarried Author:Ellen Barkin
“Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.” YearsMotherMorningMomDadSkillsDegreesDiedMy DadMilesBusNew LifeSmall BusinessLivelihoodMadisonNew SkillsWeekdaysDad DiedMy Dad Died Author:Paul Ryan
“I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.” YearsLongLostLanguageSocialBitsSkillsAccentsSocial SkillsLearning Language Author:Daniel Tammet
“With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!” YearsHeartArtCareAgeTimePassionSkillsAgingCunningMalicious Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.” MenYearsArtThreeOpportunitySkillsTestsDragonsSlaying Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“Aw, fudge,' floated down to me, as a couple of golden eyes peered over a third-floor window ledge. 'You're a freaking dhampir. Why are you reading Tolkien?' I shrugged, then had to dodge the potted geranium he threw at me. 'After five hundred years, you've read just about everything. Besides, he had hella world-building skills.” WorldYearsEyeReadingFiveBuildingCoupleSkillsHundredWindowThirdsGoldenDodgeFudgeLedgesGolden Eye Author:Karen Chance
“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.” YearsMindTwoWarEndsEasyAbilityConsciousnessVisionPlanetsSkillsDiseaseBehaviorIntellectualCrisisHungryCuresTwo ThingsEngineeringTechnologicalOur PlanetConditioningMind BlowingBad BehaviorAbility To ChangeBlowing ItSave Our Planet Author:Terence McKenna
“The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it to her list of useful skills she needed to acquire along with hand-to-hand combat and the recipe for pesto. If her life were to continue on its present track which after 26 years of obscurity, now seemed to mainly involve people trying to kill her, it would appear that acquiring a less savory skill set might be necessary. Although she supposed pesto making ought to be termed 'more savory'.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsHandsMightDoorsOughtNeededSkillsPicksTrackListsAcquireCombatLockedLocksRecipesObscurityResourcefulSavory Author:Gail Carriger
“Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don’t see the need. It’s easier just to have folks explain stuff.” PeopleKnowsNeedsYearsBookNamesStuffPracticeMinesEasierSkillsFolksMythDumbGreekAnnabethGreek Myth Book:The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus) Source: The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)