Qualifications
Qualifications give me a license
To treat that I know more than what I know
And give others a notion about me
That I know more than I truly know.
Qualifications misguide in two ways:
A confidence booster to the holders;
A hall-mark to the estimators.
Qualifications are sold for a price.
08.10.2012.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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No Qualifications
Now he wanted to fly all those big aeroplanes
Trans-continental and back home again
But his brain, it was grounded
His head could not cope
No qualifications, no reasons for hope
They told him the right way to fasten his tie
Beat him for laughing and never said why
They left his for dead when the results came through
And still never asked what he wanted to do
No qualifications so late in the day
Weve screwed you up, well, now you make your own way
Now to label your trousers and label your shoes
If you dont wear nothing then label that too
No qualifications, you are the time born
If you wanna succeed you better get some qualifications
So late in the day
Weve screwed you up, well, now you make your own way
song performed by by Chris Rea
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I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
quote by Dylan Moran
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Simplistic Solutions: Sexism
They tell me men
label all women
according to body parts?
(Who women?) feminists?
(Does this include gay men?)
(Stereotypical comments
sweeping statements
such as these are useless
divisive generalizations.)
That women are not appreciated
recognized for their true worth?
(Does worth equal potential or quality?)
(Workers are paid according to qualifications
little pieces of paper diplomas degrees
at market value country economy sustains.)
(To pay women less for equal same work
with equal qualifications is gender discrimination
an appalling waste of talent human resources.)
That a lack of cleavage or beauty
lowers their female self esteem?
(More than myth I know!)
(Plastic surgery boasts public confidence
in both genders who can afford the price?)
(Beauty is an expensive trim age up keep
brains lack sex appeal visual ego attraction.)
Simplistic answers (condemnations) that deny
the way even men are publically seen perceived.
Raise your sons to stereotypes be strong
men never cry then wonder why men
cannot express emotions think stereotypes?
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Qualifications
'Mister Pertillar,
Based upon your 'experience'...
What makes you qualified,
To fly a 747? '
I have flown in a 747 twice.
And I once walked the streets of Paris,
Behind someone wearing a Captain's uniform.
'Fabulous! Great news.
And you...
Mister Chester?
Same question.'
~First and foremost...
Giving honor to God,
With true patriotism.
I have flown 747s for twenty years as a pilot.
And I have also...~
'Very well stated Mister Chester.
However...
Did you or did you not walk the streets of Paris?
We wish to hear of your 'experience' that led to your qualifications.
Not your 'actual' qualifications!
Do you wish the question to be repeated? '
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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I've always been a snob about qualifications.
quote by Keira Knightley
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I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.
quote by Luther Allison
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I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.
quote by David Irving
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We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.
quote by Richard Cecil
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I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
quote by Henry James
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They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.
quote by George Weah
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People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
quote by Peter Ustinov
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
quote by Harriet Martineau
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Blessings In Best Wishes Dreams
health wealth well being is relative
to values qualifications expectations
dreamers must cost pay purchase price
whatever purchase price dream demands...
all dreams cost luck often achieves
little which attainment lasts in life
immortalize dreams in words actions
essence of lives lived mind permeates...
poem by Terence George Craddock
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We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
quote by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
quote by James Dean
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If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money.
quote by Estelle Morris
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All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
quote by John Amery
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I left school with no qualifications but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
quote by Dexter Fletcher
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At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.
quote by Hedda Hopper
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
quote by John Le Carre
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