Skills Quotes - Page 38

• Life is a blast when you know what you're doin',
  Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined.
  Life is a thrill when your skill is developed,
  If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up.

  Del tha Funkee Homosapien

  Rap, Hip Hop, Thrill

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• The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Adventure, Wind, Sky

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• 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

  Creativity, Creative, Sitting

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• Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Long, Luck, Pay

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• Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they'll need to compete in the global economy.

  Michael Dell

  Teamwork, Dream, Unique

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• Skills are freedom. Get skilled up!

  Pat Falvey

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• Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

  Taylor Dane

  Song, Real, Years

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• Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Business, Passion, Worry

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• I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

  Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (1972). “Acts and monuments”

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• Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

  David Starr Jordan

  Motivational, Knowing, Virtue

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• Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

  Pindar

  Teacher, Teaching, Winning

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• Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Long, Building

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• When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Meaningful, Jobs, Careers

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• And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Judging, Political

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• Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

  Hippocrates

  Fall, Home, Exercise

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• Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.

  Mors Kochanski

  Mean, Fire, Knowing

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• The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.

  Cody Lundin

  Odds, Survival, Emergencies

  Cody Lundin (2011). “98. 6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

  Al Kaline

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fall, Past

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Civilization, Achievement, Energy

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Years, Practice, Long

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.352

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• The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

  Thomas Szasz

  Jobs, Needs, Poor

  Thomas Szasz (1988). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy”, p.28, Syracuse University Press

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• Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

  Euripides

  Struggle, Knowledge, Effort

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.

  Robertson Davies

  Hate, Technology, Quality

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

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• Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

  Charles Kennedy

  Britain, Immigrants

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