#skills

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#practice #sex #skills #cat

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

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

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#amount #boxes #business #business sense #certain

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna

I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country. ↗

— Paul Biya

#appointed #been #believe #bright #bright future

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#available #business #compete #cost #development

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#damaged #fate #i #knowing #lives

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#broke #english #fine #fingers #get

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. ↗

— Julian Bond

#behind #demand #education #energy #got