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Skill Quotes by Atul Gawande
- We recruit for attitude and train for skill,
- What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill…
- No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are…
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- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully… — Diane Ackerman
- I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a… — Amy Adams
- It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what… — William Bernbach
- Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. — Ambrose Bierce
- Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised… — Edward de Bono
- He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. — Edmund Burke
- Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more… — W.C. Fields
- The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.… — Charles R. Swindoll
- Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More — Tom Peters
- To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens… — William J. Clinton
- As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — U Thant