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• Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.

  Brian Tracy

  Ideas, Arrows, Goal

  Brian Tracy (2004). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.7, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I like things that involve skill and I love anything that's a bit of a challenge

  Harry Styles

  Challenges, Bits

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• Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

  J. Paul Getty

  People, Classroom, Results

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• Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

  Bill Drayton

  Empathy, Understanding, Listening

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• To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

  Joanna Lumley

  Book, Judging, Knows

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• No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Tricks, Endure

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  Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

  Bill Russell

  Success, Winning, Practice

  Bill Russell, David Falkner (2001). “Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner”, p.70, Penguin

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• An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.

  Will Durant

  Men, Play, People

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1954). “The story of civilization”

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• A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

  Martin Luther

  Music, All Things, Prodigious

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• Don't ask for the task to be easy... just ask for it to be worth it
  Don't wish it was easier... wish you were better
  Don't ask for less challenge... ask for more skill
  Don't ask for less problems... and for more wisdom
  It's the challenge that makes the experience.
  Life and it's colour and meaning and adventure for you is this collection of experiences.
  To wish them away is to wish your life away.

  Jim Rohn

  Adventure, Challenges, Wish

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• My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

  Russell Wilson

  Trying, Details, Attention

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• To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Enemy

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• BOLD Immersion was about exposing students to a talented and diverse community, learning about the technology industry from a non-technical point of view, and growing my skills.

  Moses

  Technology, Views, Community

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• No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.

  Frank Iero

  Hate, Heart, Stupidity

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• What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.

  Brian Tracy

  Impact, Keys, Careers

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• Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

  Avery Johnson

  Communication, Character, Successful

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• Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Reading, Heart

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• My twerking skills are for the bedroom, not for the club.

  Kim Kardashian

  Clubs, Twerking, Bedroom

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• In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Support, Growth, Artistic

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• If we are willing to allow our dark side to be a part of the whole of who we are, we will find it comes equipped with all the power, skill, intelligence, and force needed to do great things in the world.

  Debbie Ford

  Dark, World, Who We Are

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• It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

  Yaya Han

  Teenager, Parent, Cosplay

  "The Secret Origins Of Professional Cosplayer Yaya Han". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. March 14, 2013.

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• The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

  John M. Perkins

  Motivation, Needs, Incentives

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• Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.

  Neel Burton

  Wine, Men, Vintage

  Neel Burton (2016). “The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition”, p.22, Acheron Press

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• While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.

  Neel Burton

  Wine, Men, Vintage

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