Skills Quotes - Page 21

• It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Profound, Technique, Mastery

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• Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.

  John Douillard

  Fun, Increase, Process

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• A special workplace has many ingredients. The feeling that you are part of a team, a sense of community, the knowledge that what you do has real purpose - all these things help to make work fun. But by far the most important factor is whether people are able to use their individual talents and skills to do something useful, significant, and worthwhile.

  Dennis Bakke

  Fun, Real, Team

  Dennis Bakke (2010). “Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job”, p.75, PVG

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• I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

  Stuart Appleby

  Golf, Thinking, Veins

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

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• I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Mistake, Talking, People

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

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• Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

  George Nakashima

  Boards, Use, Shapes

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• Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.

  Thomas Ehrlich

  Motivation, Mean, Differences

  Thomas Ehrlich (2000). “Civic Responsibility and Higher Education”, p.6, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

  John C. Maxwell

  Greatness, Focus, Achievement

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

  Graham Roberts

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

  Aristotle

  Math, Egypt, Able

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• Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a lot of technical skill, and then a broader view which contains the abstract nature of mathematics and proofs. One does not get all of these at once, but a good mathematics program has them as goals and makes incremental steps toward them at all levels.

  Richard Askey

  Education, Math, Views

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• Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Swimming

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• Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

  Keith Henson

  Teacher, Lying, Deceit

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• When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.

  Shawn Achor

  Leadership, Motivation, Succeed

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• We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

  David Milne

  Moving On, Scotland, People

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• But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

  Deborah Bull

  Dancer, Achieve, Young

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• I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter. I don't really have that sort of strong gender identity-I identify as what I am. The fact that people are using it for creative or marketing purposes, it's just kind of like having a skill and using it to earn money.

  Andrej Pejic

  Strong, Makeup, Boys

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• I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Concerned, Transient

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• If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.

  Bella Pollen

  Country, Perseverance, Hard Work

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have a combative sibling or a physically intimidating, older sibling, you learn a lot about how to deal with situations like that later in life. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Dark, Later In Life

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• It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

  Martin Brodeur

  Taken, Tough, Kind

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

  Willard Wigan

  School, Kids, Body

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• The magic happens when you find the sweet spot where your genuine interests, skills, and opportunity intersect.

  Scott Belsky

  Sweet, Opportunity, Magic

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• A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen

  Bob Brookmeyer

  Song, Swings, Giving

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