Skills Quotes - Page 23

• For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!

  Tertullian

  Eye, Skins, Modesty

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• Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Ideas, People, Imagination

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• Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

  Dan Simmons

  Art, Opportunity, Discipline

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Ilium”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

  Whitney M. Young

  Beautiful, Jobs, Children

  Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”

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• Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Gay, Age

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.222

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• No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

  Bob Riley

  Children, School, Shapes

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• Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Mentoring, Traits

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• I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Sloth, Laziness

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• I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

  Harold H. Greene

  Law, Justice, Sometimes

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• Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.

  Richard G. Scott

  Hard Work, Leader, Balance

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• Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.

  Sharon Lechter

  Children, Grandparent, Adults

  FaceBook post by Sharon Lechter from Oct 04, 2013

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• If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

  T. Harv Eker

  Cards, Credit, Debt

  "Q&A: T. Harv Eker Talks Money, Debt and Breaking Bad Habits". Interview with Sally Herigstad, www.foxbusiness.com. April 3, 2012.

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• Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Communication, Boss

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• Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

  Jeremy Lin

  Hurt, Ethnicity, Nba

  Interview with Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.

  Anthony Minghella

  Long, Addresses, Social

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• Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

  Isaac Watts

  Teaching, Practice, Should

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• Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Book, Learning

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• DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Time, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.60, University of Georgia Press

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• Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Drinking, Breathing, Luxury

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.72

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• Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimistic, Thinking, Reality

  "Martin Seligman : Pursuing Happiness With a Positive Outlook, not a Pill". Interview with Steve Proffitt, articles.latimes.com. January 24, 1999.

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• The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well made....they prove that both skill and taste have been exerted in its arrangements. When coarsely or carelessly prepared....they greatly discredit the cook.

  Eliza Acton

  Differences, Cooking, Sauce

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• A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.

  George Ellwanger

  Cooking, Excellence, Quality

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• The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work; not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.

  Sidney Abram Weltmer

  Love, Success, Money

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• Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

  Warren Buffett

  Makeup, Emotional, Positive Energy

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