Skills Quotes - Page 36

• Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Jobs, Thinking

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• I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

  Karlie Kloss

  Helping Others, Thinking, Life And Death

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• Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, Two

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• Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Success, Work

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

  Ivanka Trump

  Learning, Important, Growing

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• It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.

  Harry Reid

  Believe, Government, America

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• It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

  Tori Spelling

  Funny, Girl, Rap

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• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth

  Wangari Maathai

  Technology, Order, Giving

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• Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprising—or are you a tool? A tool just serves its user. It’s only as good as the skill of its user, and it’s not good for anything else. So if you want to accomplish something special—something more than you can do for yourself—you can’t use a tool. You have to use a person and hope the surprises will work in your favor. You have to use something that’s free to not be what you had in mind.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Determination, Mind, Special

  Stephen R. Donaldson (1982). “The One Tree”, Del Rey

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• [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

  John Dewey

  School, Competition, Honor

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• Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Technology, Small Acts

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.202, Counterpoint

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• Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

  Louis Nizer

  Differences, People, Unity

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• Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  Franz Stampfl

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

  Conrad Burns

  Real, Self Confidence, Unique

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• Skill is less important than awareness.

  Graham Collier

  Important, Awareness

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• Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fall, Thought Provoking, Focus

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• I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Sports, Mother

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• Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.

  Colin Powell

  Exercise, Challenges, Lazy

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• Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Trust, Moving, Athlete

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Trust, Practice, Culture

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or food­-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It's economic assets, it's status, it's all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill...but they are no better as a person.

  Bob Davids

  Thinking, Oil, People

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• Wiping out is an underappreciated skill.

  Laird Hamilton

  Surfing, Wiping Out

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• The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem to work out in the short term: they will provide valuable distinctions to make better evaluations and therefore decisions in the future. Realize that decision making, like any skill you focus on improving, gets better the more often you do it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Motivational, Work Out, Decision

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• A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

  Evan Esar

  Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Special, Mouths

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• I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, People, Positive Energy

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