Skills Quotes - Page 23

• The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.

  Barbara Cochran

  Leadership, Athlete, Successful

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• Hire for character, train for skills.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Train

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• As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

  Idina Menzel

  Done, Realizing

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• Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.

  Martin Gardner

  Science, Brain, Sticks

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• Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

  Michael Palin

  Analysis, World, Geography

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• Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

  Robert Breault

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Life Is Hard

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• Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

  Tertullian

  Beauty, Eye, Carpe Diem

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• Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

  Wesley Snipes

  Art, Humanity, Use

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• Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Creativity, School

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• I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

  Joan Cusack

  Kids, Parenting, Emotional

  "Rt Interview: Joan Cusack On War, Inc., The Unofficial Sequel To Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 2008.

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• The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Home, Past

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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• Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More

  Tom Peters

  Attitude, Train

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.507, Vintage

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• To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S. workers. The combination of domestic reforms and NAFTA-related growth in Mexico will keep more Mexicans at home. It is likely that a reduction in immigration will increase the real wages of low-skilled urban and rural workers in the United States.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Home, Growth

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• We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

  Jack Kemp

  America, Immigration, Talent

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• The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.

  Barack Obama

  America, People, Broken

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• We must return immigration to a logical, orderly process where people fill out their applications and wait for approval. We must make sure illegal immigrants stop storming our borders. We must establiesh the correct criteria, such as our need for certain job skills or education, for granting the right to immigrate into the United States.

  Ross Perot

  Jobs, People, Waiting

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• In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number of new jobs created by our economy. Something is fundamentally wrong when we have millions of American citizens and legal residents begging for jobs, and yet we are admitting thousands and thousands of immigrants a year with virtually no consideration to our employment needs or their employment skills.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Government, Years

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• Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.

  Aldo Leopold

  Exercise, Sportsmanship, Roles

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.178, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

  George Washington

  Encouragement, Home, Mean

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

  William Cowper

  War, Doing Nothing, Deals

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 192

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• Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

  Bret Morrison

  Communication, Empowering, Available

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• All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Teacher, Challenges, Different

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• All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.

  Jerry Lynch

  Athlete, Loss, Improvement

  Jerry Lynch (2001). “Creative Coaching”, p.192, Human Kinetics

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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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• It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

  Lynn Davies

  Athlete, Knowing, Taught

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