Skills Quotes - Page 6

• These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.

  Lucy Powell

  Government, People, Tough Times

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• Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivation, Technology, Self

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• As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Passion, Writing, Creativity

  "Dan the man". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Opportunity

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• To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S. workers. The combination of domestic reforms and NAFTA-related growth in Mexico will keep more Mexicans at home. It is likely that a reduction in immigration will increase the real wages of low-skilled urban and rural workers in the United States.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Home, Growth

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• We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

  Jack Kemp

  America, Immigration, Talent

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• Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Goal

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• Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Character, Giving

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• Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

  William Cowper

  War, Doing Nothing, Deals

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 192

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• Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

  Bret Morrison

  Communication, Empowering, Available

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• The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

  George Washington

  Encouragement, Home, Mean

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Integrity, Believe

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• This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Jobs, People

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• I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

  John C. Reilly

  Challenges, Trying, Take Me

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• It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

  John F. Kennedy

  Golf, Hands, Secret

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• People have a pathway to citizenship right now: It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Jobs, Law, People

  "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan" by David Welna, www.npr.org. February 21, 2013.

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• Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

  Hugh Mackay

  Education, Reading, Writing

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• I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

  Ryan Reynolds

  Class, Parent, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hiding, Ability, Know How

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• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

  Alistair Cooke

  Ambition, Golf, Stupidity

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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• But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

  Anita Roddick

  Giving, Balance, Use

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• The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Two, Comedy

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• Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

  Henry Rollins

  Impact, Ideas, Poet

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• With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.

  Joe Gold

  Ambition, Persistence, Trying

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• It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

  Samuel Hynes

  Writing, Airplane, Flying

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