Qualifications Quotes

• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.56, U of Minnesota Press

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• Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Education, Business

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• I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

  Henry James

  Literature, Adore, Adverbs

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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.

  James Dean

  Inspirational, Motivational, Following Instructions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

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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?

  Harriet Martineau

  Teacher, Teaching, Responsibility

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

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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.

  Peter Ustinov

  People, Tree, Bottom

  "International Celebrity Register: U.S. Edition". Book edited by Cleveland Amory, Earl Blackwell and Sydney Wolfe Cohen, 1959.

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• I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

  David Irving

  Academic

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• The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

  Dave Smalley

  Life, Strong, Acceptance

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• You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

  Derek Jacobi

  Quality, Actors, Young

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• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  Earl Warren

  Birthday, Children, Heart

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Men And Women

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.

  Henry Ford II

  Strong, Views, Work Ethic

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• There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

  Nancy Kassebaum

  Education, Teacher, Failure

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• There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

  Aristotle

  Loyalty, Government, Justice

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Observation, Situation, Accurate

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.23

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• The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Years, Mind

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• There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

  Peter Drucker

  Character, Tasks, Genius

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.23, Routledge

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• Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Intuition, Literature

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• Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust.

  Matthias B. Tallmadge

  Character, Office, Voting

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• I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting when I was a kid, and I've earned a living as an artist all my life. It's my job in the sense that it's everything I am, the only thing I know how to do. I literally do not have qualifications to do anything else on this planet. Seriously, it's scary. [But] I don't consider it a job [because] it's my religion - it's my faith, it's my family, it's everything to me.

  Torquil Campbell

  Jobs, Kids, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, Self Confidence, Arrogance

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• Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

  Charles Hodge

  Sea, Giving, Church

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.38

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• The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality...

  George Washington

  Party, Character, Eye

  George Washington's Inaugural Address, www.archives.gov. April 30, 1789.

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