Economists who have studied the relationship between…

Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional…

— Daniel Goleman

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in…

— James Heckman

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or…

— Karin Slaughter

My cognitive skills are a little suspect at times. It comes and goes on certain days. I can be sitting here and you might…

— Chris Pronger

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

— Albert Bandura

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

— Rebecca Mead

My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made my life…

— Helen Mirren

“Smart enough to get into Yale. Economists studied students who had been admitted to two schools of higher and lower prestige but decided to…

— Chip Heath

Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then…

— Duncan Green

Very little attention is paid to improving the decision-making skills of both individual executives and the organizational benchstrength as a whole. Often we find…

— Justin Menkes

“[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Only recently have we begun to understand the specific cognitive skills that contribute to business success and how to measure them. Hopefully, this insight…

— Justin Menkes

Those who have high business acumen display specific, identifiable cognitive skills that permit them to perform better than their peers. Once we understand that…

— Justin Menkes

“Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.”

— Linda Perlstein

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

— Maria Konnikova