Skills Quotes - Page 40

• Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

  Maria Bartiromo

  People, Cookies, Literature

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• I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy

  Country, Determination, Dancer

  "What's the Best Way To Impress a Guy? Dancing with the Stars' Sexy Maksim Chmerkovskiy Spills the Secret!" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2012.

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• The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Hijab, Turbans, Affront

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• To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

  Dale Archer

  Important, Done, Sides

  "In the Cockpit, on Antidepressants: A Doctor Weighs In" by Karlie Pouliot, www.foxnews.com. April 02, 2010.

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• I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

  Susan Cain

  Jobs, Emotional, People

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  Vince Cable

  Long, Growth, Weakness

  "Full text: Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference" by Vincent Cable, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

  Artur Davis

  President, Next, Happens

  "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

  Warwick Davis

  Needs, Body, Costumes

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 07, 2001.

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• Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Book, Writing, Years

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• My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, Acting, Together

  "Q&A: Jesse Eisenberg's Best Role Yet". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. September 10, 2013.

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• The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Character, Experts, World

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• The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

  Lorrie Fair

  Games, World, Levels

  "U.S. Women's World Cup Soccer Hero Returns for Senior Year". Interview with Dave Lohse, www.goheels.com. August 12, 1999.

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• I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Want, Different, Theater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

  Emilio Estevez

  Thinking, Feet, Doubt

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• ...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.

  Xenophanes

  Wisdom, Horse, Athlete

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• You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.

  Isla Fisher

  Sports, Horse, Special

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

  Stedman Graham

  Race, Color, Long

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• My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

  William Hung

  Silly, Dancing, Consistency

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• In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

  Rhys Ifans

  Party, Singing, Storytelling

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• You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

  Craig Johnston

  Football, Commitment, Understanding

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• I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Running, Fate, Player

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• It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.

  Naveen Jain

  Simple, People, Needs

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Sep 07, 2016

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• We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Years, Growing

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