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• I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!

  Jon Heder

  Girl, Hunting, Want

  "Fictional character: Napoleon Dynamite". "Napoleon Dynamite", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

  Harlan Ellison

  Passion, Three, Crafts

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

  Chris Martin

  People, Enthusiasm, Rely

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• It needs more skill than I can tell
  To play the second fiddle well.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Play, Needs, Wells

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.300, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

  Joey Ramone

  Style, Economy

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• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  Helen Keller

  Teaching, Reading, Book

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• The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

  Gerald Chertavian

  Attitude, Communication, Behavior

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• I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think it's an activity, a skill, something you strive to create. A constant conversation between emotion and imagination and flesh.

  Greg Saunier

  Growing Up, Thinking, Imagination

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• I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Challenges, Challenge Yourself, Bigs

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.

  Amanda Palmer

  Light, People, Darkness

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• You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

  Susan Blackmore

  Real, Heart, Creativity

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• Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Earning

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• I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."

  Julie Bowen

  Brother, Zero, Kids

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

  Hilary Mantel

  Narrative

  Source: www.newrepublic.com

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• You double your intensity with skill.

  Twyla Tharp

  Intensity

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

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• When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Home

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, People

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• To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Play, Two

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
  Unless deportment give them decent grace;
  Blessed with all other requisites to please,
  To want the striking elegance of ease;
  Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
  Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

  Winston Churchill

  Dance, Moving, Blessed

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Success, Brother, Native American

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• To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted.
  Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Sacrifice, Afterlife

  1955 The Passionate State of Mind.

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• Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."

  John Eliot

  Business, Squirrels, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.26, Diversion Books

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• It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to do. Teaching gives knowledge. Training gives skill. Teaching fills the mind. Training shapes the habits. Teaching brings to the child that which he did not have before. Training enables a child to make use of that which is already his possession.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Teaching, Learning

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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• No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Writing, People

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Scotch, Would Be

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