Top skills Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Royal Robbins
Better we raise our skill than lower the climb
- Royal Robbins
Collection: Skills
Image of John Henrik Clarke
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.
- John Henrik Clarke
Collection: Skills
Image of Alan Blinder
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
- Alan Blinder
Collection: Skills
Image of Roger Ascham
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.
- Roger Ascham
Collection: Skills
Image of George Ellwanger
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.
- George Ellwanger
Collection: Skills
Image of Barbara Fredrickson
The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.
- Barbara Fredrickson
Collection: Skills
Image of Robert Bateman
It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.
- Robert Bateman
Collection: Skills
Image of Erik Weihenmayer
Confidence without skill is just emptiness.
- Erik Weihenmayer
Collection: Skills
Image of Denise Morrison
The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.
- Denise Morrison
Collection: Skills
Image of Irina Bokova
Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity.
- Irina Bokova
Collection: Skills
Image of Maria Rodale
My goal is to create a sustainable long-term business that, we're committed to print, we're rooted in print, but we're expanding into digital and into modernizing the way we sell to customers through e-commerce and things like that. And it requires different skill sets; it requires different ways of doing business.
- Maria Rodale
Collection: Skills
Image of Kelly McGonigal
Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better, not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills Over time, [meditators'] brains become finely tuned willpower machines.
- Kelly McGonigal
Collection: Skills
Image of Julie B. Beck
The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.
- Julie B. Beck
Collection: Skills
Image of Jeffrey Pfeffer
Those who have power a) understand that the world is not always a just and fair place and accept that fact, b) understand the bases and strategies for acquiring power, and c) take actions consistent with their knowledge in a skillful way. Skill at anything requires practice, and power skills are no different.
- Jeffrey Pfeffer
Collection: Skills
Image of Robin Skelton
It requires less skill to love than to be loved.
- Robin Skelton
Collection: Skills
Image of Joshua Waitzkin
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 set.
- Joshua Waitzkin
Collection: Skills
Image of George Nakashima
Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.
- George Nakashima
Collection: Skills
Image of Erich Schiffmann
Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.
- Erich Schiffmann
Collection: Skills
Image of David Gelernter
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.
- David Gelernter
Collection: Skills
Image of Ted Sizer
A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.
- Ted Sizer
Collection: Skills
Image of Chris Hughes
I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
- Chris Hughes
Collection: Skills
Image of Gary Null
Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.
- Gary Null
Collection: Skills
Image of Michael J. Gelb
You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.
- Michael J. Gelb
Collection: Skills
Image of Allison Mackie
There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
- Allison Mackie
Collection: Skills
Image of Ghulam Nabi Azad
Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.
- Ghulam Nabi Azad
Collection: Skills
Image of Bernie Ecclestone
You're born with certain gifts and you use them as best you can in life. You begin to learn and recognize that you have certain skills and aptitudes that you apply and use them to carry you forward.
- Bernie Ecclestone
Collection: Skills
Image of William Katt
Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?
- William Katt
Collection: Skills
Image of Richard Davidson
Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.
- Richard Davidson
Collection: Skills
Image of Kevin Eikenberry
Extraordinary potential exists in all of us. With the right environment, resources, skills and knowledge, 'ordinary' people can produce extraordinary results.
- Kevin Eikenberry
Collection: Skills
Image of Mercer Reynolds
We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.
- Mercer Reynolds
Collection: Skills
Image of Ron Dennis
Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.
- Ron Dennis
Collection: Skills
Image of Graham Collier
Skill is less important than awareness.
- Graham Collier
Collection: Skills
Image of Penelope Trunk
Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are
- Penelope Trunk
Collection: Skills
Image of David Maister
Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.
- David Maister
Collection: Skills
Image of Edward Dyer
Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake' d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.
- Edward Dyer
Collection: Skills
Image of Rajeev Shukla
Sehwag shall be remembered for his explosive and natural cricketing skills. Wish him all success on his birthday.
- Rajeev Shukla
Collection: Skills
Image of Pauline Oliveros
The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of how to produce it and place it so that it works in a space. The first consideration is adopting the space and having work that resonates in the space.
- Pauline Oliveros
Collection: Skills
Image of Adam Pally
At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.
- Adam Pally
Collection: Skills
Image of Arlene Dickinson
There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap.
- Arlene Dickinson
Collection: Skills
Image of Scott D. Anthony
It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.
- Scott D. Anthony
Collection: Skills
Image of Harry Boyte
In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that are objects of sustainable public action-become not only occasions for collaboration by invaluable sources of citizen education in their own right because they are the occasions for learning such skills.
- Harry Boyte
Collection: Skills
Image of Harry Boyte
New possibilities for a more active democracy are beginning to emerge in the information age. Effective citizen action is possible if citizens develop the abilities to gain access to information of all kinds and the skills to put such information to effective use.
- Harry Boyte
Collection: Skills
Image of Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.
- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Collection: Skills
Image of Bret Anthony Johnston
The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or voice, the result is a story beholden to and inevitably eclipsed by source material.
- Bret Anthony Johnston
Collection: Skills
Image of Thomas Piketty
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
- Thomas Piketty
Collection: Skills
Image of Carol Ann Tomlinson
When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Collection: Skills
Image of Carol Ann Tomlinson
Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Collection: Skills
Image of Antony Starr
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
- Antony Starr
Collection: Skills