Skills Quotes - Page 27

• The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.

  Confucius

  Order, Together, Weapons

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• The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

  John Naisbitt

  Important, Constantly Learning, Acquire

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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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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• God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Clouds, Unfinished Work

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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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• 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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• The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.

  Rajneesh

  Intelligence, Mind, Robots

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• Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

  C. S. Lewis

  Senior, Honesty, Disappointment

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• If skills sold truth be told
  I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli
  Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil)
  I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Common Sense, Rhyming

  "Song: 'Moment of Clarity'". 2003.

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• The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Real, Technology, Giving

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• We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Discovery, Evil

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.243

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• How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. In order to produce a successful life, one must find ways to please his fellow man. That is, find out what goods and services his fellow man values, and is willing to pay for, and then acquire the necessary skills and education to provide it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Successful, Men, Order

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspiration, Learning, Creativity

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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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• 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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• And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, Science, Mind

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.117, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  People, Incentives, Matching

  Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

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• For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.

  Steven Chu

  Education, Science, Garden

  "Steven Chu - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend Pelé has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without proper soccer training a player will never reach his full potential. It is true that great speed would benefit someone who plays as a winger but would not be as useful for a goalkeeper. The greatest advantage of soccer is that it is not as discriminating as basketball or volleyball. There are no limitations when it comes to physique and it all comes down to individual soccer skills.

  Pele

  Basketball, Soccer, Volleyball

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• Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Jobs, Titles, World

  Richard Nelson Bolles (2000). “What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters & Career-changers”

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• How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine. Setting long and short-term goals is a must. When planning out a soccer training regime, one must strive for realistic and consistent program that will diminish specific weaknesses. Broad versatility of soccer skills is the Nirvana of every dedicated trainee.

  Pele

  Soccer, Player, Goal

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• Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

  Richard Louv

  Art, Nature, Math

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.162, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

  Thomas Menino

  Sports, People, Young

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