Skill Quotes
1130 quotes by 915 authors
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Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do things diligently, delightfully…
— Anuj
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The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are…
— Leland Stanford
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It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That…
— Richard Stallman
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Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced…
— Sarah Kay
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Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that…
— Annie Oakley
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....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric skill. They live…
— Camille Paglia
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[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of…
— George Will
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
— Ellen Key
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There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to…
— John Templeton
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I have now transformed into a sensitive; a person who is able to detect when spirits are present. It's a skill that's evolved over hundreds…
— Zak Bagans
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A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
— Jim Lehrer
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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good…
— Joel Greenblatt
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The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.
— John Murphy
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I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.
— Diablo Cody
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This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon…
— John F. Kennedy
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Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill,…
— Margaret Mead
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