Skill Quotes
1130 quotes by 915 authors
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The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret…
— Matthieu Ricard
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I’ve come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business—and life—skill sets you’ll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business…
— Keith Ferrazzi
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Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what…
— Robert McKee
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If I could teach my children only one thing, it would be the skill of marketing. For with that skill, they could be successful at…
— Howard Ruff
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It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill…
— Joshua Waitzkin
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Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you…
— Joseph Pilates
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Focusing on the score attaches you to the result. Focusing on the process lets you access your greatest skill and increases your fun.
— John Douillard
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No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get…
— John C. Maxwell
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Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.
— Graham Roberts
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Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a…
— Richard Askey
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Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate…
— George Polya
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When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
— Shawn Achor
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We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively…
— David Milne
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I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.' But,…
— Andrej Pejic
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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
— Jock Sturges
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If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions.…
— Bella Pollen
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It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.
— Martin Brodeur
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A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen
— Bob Brookmeyer
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child I wanted to…
— Mary Zimmerman
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