Quotes of: Communication-skills Keyword

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we...

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us close...

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Like many white liberals, Ken sees the “whiteness” of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social...

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community, not the librarian, that was important to the li...

Scott Douglas

These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I believe that the Evil—an acute form of Evil—which it expresses, has a sovereign value for us. But this concept does ...

Georges Bataille

Study skills really aren't the point. Learning is about one's relationship with oneself and one's ability to exert the effort, self-control, and critical self-assessment necessary to achieve the best possible results--and about overcoming risk aversi...

Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students Self-Awareness and Learning Skills

All they expect from you is your best effort. These Marines think that they are special. They are very well trained, very close knit, and they don't like outsiders. If you want their respect, you will have to earn it.

Force Recon Diary, 1969: The Riveting, True-to-Life Account of Survival and Death in One of the Most Highly Skilled Units in Vietnam

The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love—both ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice the skills of intimacy, we will learn to love. Boundaries protect love and intimacy. Certain behaviors support the integrit...

Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill.

Mathieu Amalric

Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.

Michael Moschen

I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

Natalie Dormer

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Debby Ryan

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

King Krule

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

Laura Innes

Personal loss is the greatest motivator to a call for action!

Integrated Business Communication in a Global Marketplace

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.

Spike Jonze

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

Rand Paul

Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, a...

Robinson Cano

People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.

Lindsay Fox

Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.

Ruchi Sanghvi

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

John Paul DeJoria