Skill Quotes
1130 quotes by 915 authors
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Better we raise our skill than lower the climb
— Royal Robbins
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I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy…
— M. Russell Ballard
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The most important skill of the future will be the ability to learn and adapt. You need to be resourceful, keep your eyes open for…
— Vivek Wadhwa
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Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not…
— Pearl Cleage
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Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects…
— Donald Knuth
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I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly…
— Thomas Merton
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With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the…
— Rossiter Johnson
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We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in…
— Tom Hatherley Pear
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My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set; you’re tearing into…
— James Chanos
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Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped,…
— Ivan Illich
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The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.
— Jim Rogers
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The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed…
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in…
— Phyllis Chesler
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A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with…
— Bill Crawford
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Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither…
— R. Scott Bakker
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It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
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Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be…
— Matthieu Ricard
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