Skills Quotes - Page 25

• If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.

  Kiersten Warren

  Softball, Opponents, Faces

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• If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

  Robert Hughes

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

  James Roby

  Success, Art, Intellectual

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• While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Motivational, Violence, Causes

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

  Edmund Burke

  Adversity, Challenges, Suffering

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• George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

  Brad Sherman

  Glitter, Weak, Foreign Policy

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• Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Bridges, Discovery

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• You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Character, Emotional

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

  Del Harris

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Creative, Needs

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• When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellence, Strive, Wells

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].”, p.529

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• Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Learning, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.11

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• Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Genius, Splendid, Fine

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• If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Needs, Attempting, Ability

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• We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.

  William J. Clinton

  Internet Access, Goal, Connections

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• A minimum required standard to obtain a massage license is quite a different matter from a voluntary certification evidencing higher-level skills. Licensing standards should be set at a level sufficient to assure safe practice, but low enough to avoid screening out those individuals who choose to perform basic work

  Bob Benson

  Practice, Different, Levels

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• Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line.

  Will Burtin

  Philosophy, Communication, Artist

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• If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.

  John F. Kennedy

  America, Endurance, Use

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

  Robert McCracken

  Kindness, Ideas, Boredom

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• One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

  Ron Jeffries

  Knowing, Simplicity, Design

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• We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

  H. G. Wells

  Creative, World

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16126, Delphi Classics

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• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  F. Sionil José

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Art

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• To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Play, Accomplishment

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• Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

  Dustin Diamond

  Teamwork, Business, Kids

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• Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and when the various Nations of the World can agree to stop this is uncertain. But individual scientists can still influence this process by withholding their skills.

  Hans Bethe

  Country, Nuclear Disarmament, Eras

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.

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