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• My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

  Justin Kan

  Smart, Careers, People

  "10 Smart Quotes From ‘Innovation Uncensored’ Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Self

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• There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to me any teaching activity must seek to bridge if it is to deserve that label. Teaching activities must therefore take place at a level where the pupil can take on what it is intended he should learn.

  Paul Q. Hirst

  Teaching, Bridges, Mind

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• Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

  Confucius

  Teacher, People, Waiting

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• We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

  Vincent Nichols

  Community, Important, Together

  "Archbishop Vincent Nichols voices fears over social networking sites". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.

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• Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.

  John Motson

  Football, Able

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• No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Exercise, Reflection

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

  Bruce Lee

  Learning, Growth, Firsts

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• Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

  Bliss Perry

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

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• New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby.

  Josh Lewsey

  Team, World, Lessons

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• Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

  Jim Rohn

  Success, Might, Strategy

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 06, 2015

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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.

  Jeff Cooper

  Dream, Queens, Exercise

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

  Janet Fish

  Attitude, Grows, Take Time

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• Fiction allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

  Philip Hensher

  Reading, Thinking, Views

  "Philip Hensher: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Loss, Ideas, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

  Colin Mochrie

  Accomplishment, Dating, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities that enable all living beings to obtain their food, to find shelter, to bring forth their young: to sing and dance and fly through the air and swim through the depths of the sea. This is the same inner tendency that evokes the insight of the poet, the skill of the artist and the power of the shaman.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Creativity, Artist

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.51, Crown

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• A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Betrayal

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market

  Tom DeLay

  Business, Ideas, People

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• Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

  Feist

  Writing, Way, Fortunate

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• The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

  Winston Churchill

  Inevitable, Know How, Knows

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• Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Humanity, Opening Your Mind, Objective Truth

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• It's fun making new skills for new characters.

  Masahiro Sakurai

  Fun, Character, New Skills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.

  Rajneesh

  Intelligence, Mind, Robots

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• Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Opportunity

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