Skills Quotes - Page 37

• Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Real, Caring

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• If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Bridges, Mind

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

  Peter Mandelson

  Campaigning

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• We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Technology, Greed, Needs

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• Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Fun, Mean, Perfect One

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.

  Barack Obama

  Meaningful, Art, Children

  "President’s Committee Makes Strongest Case Ever for Arts Education" by John M. Eger, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

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• In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I am reminded of the story of the salesman who came to a house one hot summer day. Through the screen door he could see a young boy practicing his scales on the piano. His baseball glove and hat were by the side of the piano bench. He said, "Say, boy, is your mother home?" To which the boy replied, "What do you think?" Thank heavens for conscientious parents!

  Joe J. Christensen

  Summer, Baseball, Mother

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• The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

  Thomas Berry

  Real, Wind, Sail

  Thomas Berry (2010). “Evening Thoughts”, p.136, Counterpoint

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• The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

  Bill Drayton

  Creative, Flying, Sitting

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• I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach. I really can’t think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that — its humanity.

  Glenn Gould

  Meaningful, Moving, Thinking

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• India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals

  Verghese Kurien

  People, India, Sun

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• I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which can require a lot of money, some finance skills, lots of due diligence and property management skills to do well -- silver is affordable to the masses, and management skills are minimum.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Writing, Management Skills

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• Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present
  thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stealing, Thee, All Time

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.

  Doug Fields

  Clever, Men, Ideas

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• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  Florence Welch

  Style, Enthusiasm, Instinct

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• Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce some people's opportunity to grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder to get the opportunities and the skills that you need to move up that economic ladder.

  Kevin Madden

  Moving, Opportunity, Government

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• Yes, I think I have the skills to compete with Anderson Silva.

  Brian Stann

  Thinking, Anderson Silva

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• When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

  Temple Grandin

  Way, Geek, Shows

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• Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2015). “HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman)(HBR's 10 Must Reads)”, p.3, Harvard Business Review Press

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• For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Needs, Success In Life, Devotion

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• One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

  Margaret Beckett

  Reason, Social Worker, Workers

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• T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

  Debby Ryan

  Nice, Acting, Stability

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• Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.

  James L Hymes

  Children, Memories, Thinking

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• The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Moving, Careers

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• I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.

  Mark Edward

  Passion, Fighting, Artist

  "Lessons From Old Art Magazines". markedwardadams.com. May 3, 2013.

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