Skills Quotes - Page 40

• Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Reading, Majority

  "Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Country, Heritage, Treasure

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• Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

  Richard Leakey

  Law, Survival, Culture

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• Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

  Derek Bok

  Senior, College, Thinking

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• Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.

  Elihu Root

  Art, Exercise, Self

  "Men and Policies: Addresses". Book by Elihu Root, ed. Robert Bacon and James B. Scott, p. 75, "Lincoln as a Leader of Men", 1924.

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• Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

  Leland Stanford

  Mean, Tools, Labor

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• We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

  Lou Gerstner

  Needs, Integrated, Commerce

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• Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of words" One fashions by scheming and skill For those who are greedy and warlike, Whose avarice for power cannot cease, Can never contribute in helping To bring this world nearer to peace For in seeking peace for all people There is only one place to begin And that is in each home and heart- For the fortress of peace is within!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Fashion, Peace, Home

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less. There are far more serious things to do than indulge in stunts. . . . I do not discard completely the value of demonstrating to the world our skills. Nor do I undervalue the effect on morale of the spectacular. But the present hullabaloo on the propaganda aspects of the program leaves me entirely cool.

  Vannevar Bush

  Moon, Men, Indulge In

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• The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Typewriters, Ladders

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• I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Believe, Marine, Built

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• My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Marine, Years, Understanding

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• Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

  Lou Brock

  Competition, Warfare, Matching

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• I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thinking, Born, Presenter

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• If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.

  Avery Brooks

  Art, Expression, Voice

  IMDb Mini Biography By: L. J. Allen, www.imdb.com.

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• Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

  Michael Symon

  Kids, Listening, Important

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• I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Real, Rooms, Know How

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• I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

  Alastair Campbell

  Hurt, Ideas, People

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

  John Milius

  Writing, People, Doe

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• Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

  Michael Azerrad

  Thinking, People, Everyday

  "TALK: Michael Azerrad". Interview with Jim Shearer, www.ifc.com. September 18, 2008.

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• The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Management Skills, Leader

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• Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

  Eve Arnold

  Moving, Musician, Target

  Eve Arnold (2002). “Film Journal”, p.16, A&C Black

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• Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

  Paget Brewster

  Men, Dating, Awful

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• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

  Candace Bushnell

  Barns, Pottery, Window Dressing

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