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• The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you’re comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.

  Matt Bomer

  Technique, Comfort, Best Experiences

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• I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

  Chris Hughes

  Trying, World, Use

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• For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Government, Office

  Comment to General Henry Knox on the delay in assuming office, March 1789.

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• Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Ends, Quince

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [108]

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• To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

  Shawn Johnson

  Hurt, Athlete, Thinking

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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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• Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

  Peter Tork

  Baseball, Bats, Watches

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• A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

  Frank Borman

  Use, Pilots, Judgment

  "Flying Lessons". Federal Aviation Administration, January 08, 2008.

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• Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Eight, Years

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.

  Clint Dempsey

  Sports, Play, Roles

  "Clint Dempsey, World Cup Star, Credits Jesus For His Success" By Antonia Blumberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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• Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  Franz Stampfl

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Technology, Small Acts

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.202, Counterpoint

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• Skill is less important than awareness.

  Graham Collier

  Important, Awareness

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• It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.

  Harry Reid

  Believe, Government, America

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• However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

  Herman Melville

  Baby, Men, Sea

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.190, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Running, Long, Luck

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.58, Random House

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• With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Nice, Eye, Soul

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• Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

  Conrad Burns

  Real, Self Confidence, Unique

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• I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

  Helen Fielding

  Men, Social, Social Skills

  Helen Fielding (2009). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Sports, Mother

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• Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Trust, Moving, Athlete

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Trust, Practice, Culture

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, People, Positive Energy

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• Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Thinking, Doors

  Temple Grandin (2008). “The Way I See it: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.157, Future Horizons

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