Skills Quotes - Page 34

• Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Constant, Subjects

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• Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.

  Bill Bryson

  Real, Ocean, Discovery

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.254, Random House

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• Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

  Walter Russell

  Science, Doe, Know How

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• Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

  Julie B. Beck

  Family, Strong, Preparation

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• Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

  Darrel Ray

  Thinking, Religion, Viruses

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• A fighter with heart will almost always win out against a fighter with skill but no will.

  Chuck Liddell

  Heart, Winning, Fighter

  Chuck Liddell, Chad Millman (2008). “Iceman: My Fighting Life”, p.38, Penguin

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• Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dream, Self, Doubt

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• Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

  Gene Logsdon

  Dark, Common Purpose, Common Sense

  Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

  Murong Xuecun

  Writing, Cutting, Effort

  "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.

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• The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.

  Gerald Brooks

  Jesus, Heart, Leader

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• Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

  Ryan Holmes

  Media, People, Needs

  "Turning Your Passion Into Your Position: Social Media for the New Job Market" by Ryan Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Art, Men, Deception

  Simon Greenleaf (1847). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.47

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• If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I
  believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

  Susan Polgar

  Women, Believe, Play

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• Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.

  Magda Gerber

  Children, Fall, Sleep

  Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

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• Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

  Richard Davidson

  Well Being, Wells

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• Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Knitting, People, Achievement

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• It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

  Henry Tudor

  Science, Men, Overcoming

  Henry Tudor (1834). “Narrative of a tour in North America: comprising Mexico, the mines of Real de Monte, the United States, and the British colonies; with an excursion to the island of Cuba. In a series of letters, written in the years 1831-2”, p.233

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• [E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems. Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more. But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills.

  Doug Bandow

  Running, Simple, Government

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• Ahmadinijad was stupid enbough to be a wolf in wolf's clothing, to expose his teeth and nails and alert the west. I can be a wolf in sheep's clothing. I have all the diplomatic and rhetoric skills to do so.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Stupid, Sheep, Israel

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• Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

  Tony Robbins

  Marriage, Men, Important

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• Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians have trouble executing a passage, they generally tend to blame themselves for not having enough talent. Actually, all that's wrong is they don't know where their fingers are supposed to go...you should learn the piece in your head before you play it. And when you do play it, play it so slow that there's no possibility of making a mistake.

  Howard Roberts

  Mistake, Play, Guitar

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• Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Courage, Teenager, Writing

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• Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

  Audrey Meadows

  Umpires, Ideas, Judgement

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• All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Leadership, Loyalty, Priorities

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• Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

  Kip Winger

  Music, Years, Mastery

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