While most of today's jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, ...organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The United States is the only great nation whose government is operated without a budget. The fact is to be the more striking when... it is considered that budgets and budget procedures are the outgrowth of democratic doctrines and have an important part in developing the modern constitutional rights.... The constitutional purpose of a budget is to make government responsive to public opinion and responsible for its acts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the lim...elight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In academic science, interdisciplinary work is productive and praised, but is relatively rare. Scientists don't need to cooperate ...to have their results fit together: they are all describing different parts of the same thing--nature--so in the long run, their results tend to come together into a single picture. Engineering, however, is different. Because it is more creative (it actually creates complex things), it demands more attention to teamwork. If the finished parts are going to work together, they must be developed by groups that share a common picture of what each part must accomplish. Engineers in different disciplines are forced to communicate; the challenge of management and team-building is to make that communication happen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What the world needs today is not more competition but woman's native genius for sympathetic co-operation. Competition is so acute... because society has crumbled and left the individual atomized and unprotected. Unless we women succeed in modifying this competitive spirit through more effective co-operation between public and private endeavor, between management and labor, between the contending religious groups, between the family and the community, between one individual and another, then there is little hope for our democratic civilization. This is women's great opportunity--to ease the acute and dangerous tensions of American life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of the 464 specifications contained in your Public Prayers for the week, and not previously noted in this report, we grant 2, and ...deny the rest. To wit: Granted, (1) "That the clouds may continue to perform their office; (2) and the sun his." It was the divine purpose anyhow; it will gratify you to know that you have not disturbed it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deservi...ng of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, th...e landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe, I saye this, that they been maad for bothe--... That is to sayn, for office and for ese Of engendrure, ther we nat God displese.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »