Agency Quote by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I was impressed, although unsurprised. She was obviously in the habit of thinking operationally, and was as matter-of-fact about it as she was effective.…

— Barry Eisler

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests,…

— John Updike

“It was hard to explain, but there just seemed to be something in the air here. Whatever it was, it made everyone more serious…

— Amanda Ripley

“As we’ve entered the computer age, however, our talent for connecting with other minds has had an unintended consequence.”

— Nicholas Carr

“learned rapidly because his first training was in how to leam. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could…

— Frank Herbert

We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not only did…

— Linda Lantieri

“Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. —Anonymous”

— Steven D. Price

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

— Richard Davidson

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one…

— Martin Lewis Perl

“there’s never been a worse time to be a worker with only ‘ordinary’ skills and abilities to offer, because computers, robots, and other digital…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in theirs. When…

— Anita Sarkeesian

“What was most surprising, she was giving him the hardest thing to do first, but by failure at the great one he was learning…

— Dhan Gopal Mukerji