In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide skills, services, and education for… — John F. Tierney Copy Share Image
A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world.… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are… — Christopher Kimball Copy Share Image
“Birds do not attend flight schools; Rivers do not attend flowing colleges; Fishes do not attend swimming conferences; Trees do not attend… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I… — Sidney Crosby Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
You replaced me with a shaved poodle?” “He’s got mad skills.” Derek’s eyebrows crept up. “He can vomit and urinate at the… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is… — Paul LePaul Copy Share Image
Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from… — Siobhan Davies Copy Share Image
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you… — Tom Glavine Copy Share Image
Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and… — Penelope Trunk Copy Share Image
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it… — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
“Human error is not random. It results from basic human mental abilities and physical skills combined with the features of the tools… — Nancy G. Leveson Copy Share Image
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The… — Homer Copy Share Image
Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
