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jobs skills risk
Alan Greenspan 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.
jobs thinking idols
Alan Chambers I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.
jobs giving-up blow
Al Roker Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.
jobs thinking great-job
Al Jardine I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.
jobs healthy want
Akio Morita We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
jobs creativity responsibility
Akio Morita I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
jobs giving important
Akio Morita Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
jobs reading prophet
Aiden Wilson Tozer I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.
writing thinking practice
Charles Caleb Colton There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
writing justice add
Charles Caleb Colton Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
writing first-love should-have
Charles Dickens Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
writing names forgiving
Charles Dickens Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
writing support events
Charles Dickens Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
writing stories want
Charles Soule Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.
writing years long
Charles Stross If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.
writing hints facts
Charles Stross If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
writing ideas stories
Charles Stross Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
understanding vietnam realizing
Alan Moore As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.
understanding important president
Dean Acheson The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
understanding criticism taste
David Hume Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.
understanding want prudent
Dee Hock The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
understanding affair reason
Carlos Castaneda You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
understanding mind wish
Charlotte Lamb I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!
understanding world rounds
Charles Baudelaire The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
understanding information moments
Charlie Kaufman Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.
understanding gold hoarding
Charlie Munger I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.