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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Skills Quotes
  • Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aimee Bender Quotes , Sadness Quotes , Skills Quotes
  • It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Skills Quotes
  • Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Math Quotes , Skills Quotes
  • Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Horse Quotes , Skills Quotes
  • Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Skills Quotes