Arguments Quote by Linda Perlstein

“Rather than simply training our children’s minds to absorb and regurgitate facts so that they can do well on standardized tests, mindfulness has the…

— Patricia A. Jennings

“Ellington would be growing up in a culture saturated with an idea you might call the cognitive hypothesis: the belief... that success today primarily…

— Paul Tough

We often say that someone has exceptional political or social savvy, but what specific cognitive skills allow these people to handle interpersonal situations so…

— Justin Menkes

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

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

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

“[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

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

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly…

— Derek Bok

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

— Albert Bandura

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

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