Quotes of: New-skills Keyword

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Zubin Mehta

According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line... This is more than twice the national average, but is close tot he percentages in other American cities such as Miami (28....

Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since...

Jayber Crow

New Rule: Americans have to come up with a better cheese to represent the nation than American cheese. I'm not even sure American cheese is cheese. I think it's aged Jell-O. And it doesn't need to be individually wrapped in plastic, either. You're th...

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place he's supposed to pee, there's a couch.

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the next thing I know it's three days later, I'm in the desert, I'm banging on a drum, I'm naked, and somebody's pierced my dick.

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's making new records. Suck on , Partnership for a Drug-Free America!

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: Oil companies must stop with the advertisements implying they're friends of the environment. "At Exxon Mobil, we care about a thriving wildlife." Please--the only thing an oil executive has in common with a seagull is they'd both steal fren...

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: You can't put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that might lead to someone building one. As long as you're sending a camera crew to a farm, why not just take a picture of actual bullshit?

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: There's only one thing to say about the Christian Film and Television Commission giving me the Bigoted Bile Award and naming the number-one Most Unbearable Movie of 2008: Thank you! You hate me, you really hate me!

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and someone shot you in the head, your coin really shouldn't say, "In God We Trust.

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the sound that comes out the other end doesn't make you want to kill yourself--you're not drunk enough.

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: It's okay for the president to play ball in the house. It's easy to judge and say this scene detracts from the dignity of the White House--until you consider the end zone is between Clinton's semen stain and where Bush OD'd on a pretzel.

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

Though I have not lived in New York City for more than two decades, these storytellers – from the United States, Britain and Canada – have touched my heart with their openness, inspired me with their joie de vivre and deepened my appreciation for...

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons From Solo Moments in New York

How many of us walk around being weighed down by the baggage of our journey? You can’t possibly embrace that new relationship, that new companion, that new career, that new friendship, or that new life you want while you’re still holding on to th...

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, ...

Brian D. McLaren

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is the capacity to listen.

Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

Dearly Devoted Dexter

Don't build a team that will fuel your 'ego'. Build a team that has the skills, desire & passion for fueling the 'vision'.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise.

The Detective

So now books were her only friends. She'd read so often she could recite whole scenes by memory. It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.

Firefly Lane