#skill

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#education #future #growth #innovation #our

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#education #emotional #hope #in other words #including

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#created #going #got #jobs #keep

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. ↗

— Robert Heller

#exists #first #management #myth #second

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#always #business #everything #how #i

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has. ↗

— William Hung

#dancing #good #horrible #i #like

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. ↗

— Epicurus

#pilots #reputation #skillful #storms #tempest

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond. ↗

— Robert Jenkins

#american interests #arm #beyond #could #english-speaking

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique. ↗

— Jewel

#britney spears #dollars #gold #hit #hours

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#behind #between #child #denies #educational