#skill

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cool #coolness #fool #independence #individuality

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#business #civil #civil society #community #global

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success. ↗

— Joe Baca

#america #children #component #educational #future

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#general #goals #him #implement #leader

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#assure #coordinate #faithful #incoming #leader

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#adapt #american #asked #country #customs

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#day #first #half #labor #try

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#alone #been #beneficial #concentrated #country

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #belonged #comparatively #conducted #craft

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. ↗

— Russell Baker

#emma #especially #figures #flamboyant #good