Top skills Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Greg Palast
The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.
- Greg Palast
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Image of Margaret Beckett
One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.
- Margaret Beckett
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Image of Amar'e Stoudemire
I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.
- Amar'e Stoudemire
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Image of Dave Franco
I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.
- Dave Franco
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Image of Anousheh Ansari
Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.
- Anousheh Ansari
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Image of Ron Jeffries
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.
- Ron Jeffries
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Image of Marcus Terentius Varro
Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes
- Marcus Terentius Varro
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Image of Alexis Ohanian
Not everyone is going to end up being a founder of a company, but the skill of being entrepreneurial, having ideas and going through with them - that skill is so important. Everyone should be imbued with it. Because once you have that, once your brain has been wired for that, all these problems, obstacles, all these things start looking like things you can hack.
- Alexis Ohanian
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Image of Antero Alli
Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.
- Antero Alli
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Image of Hyrum W. Smith
Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.
- Hyrum W. Smith
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Image of Kathryn Schulz
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct
- Kathryn Schulz
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Image of Ioan Gruffudd
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.
- Ioan Gruffudd
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Image of Vladimir Bukovsky
Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.
- Vladimir Bukovsky
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Image of Jim Highsmith
Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.
- Jim Highsmith
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Image of Jim Highsmith
Process is not a substitute for skill.
- Jim Highsmith
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Image of Ray Mears
The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.
- Ray Mears
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Image of Jessica Livingston
My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was that, when the time came and I had to get one done, I would design my own, fresh, without knowing how other people do it. That was another thing that made me very good. All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever. Every single thing that we came out with that was really great, I'd never once done that thing in my life.
- Jessica Livingston
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Image of Arthur Conan Doyle
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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Image of Peter Drucker
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
- Peter Drucker
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Image of Peter Drucker
Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
- Peter Drucker
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Image of Jay Bilas
Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved.
- Jay Bilas
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Image of Gretchen Carlson
I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.
- Gretchen Carlson
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Image of Caio Terra
Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.
- Caio Terra
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Image of Lester Sumrall
I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.
- Lester Sumrall
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Image of Joel Greenblatt
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 process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.
- Joel Greenblatt
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Image of Michael Merzenich
Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.
- Michael Merzenich
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Image of Sunil Bharti Mittal
Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.
- Sunil Bharti Mittal
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Image of Shiv Khera
Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
- Shiv Khera
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Image of Lawrence Weiner
Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.
- Lawrence Weiner
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Image of Neil Clark Warren
Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.
- Neil Clark Warren
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Image of Luke Jermay
Skills rest in your mind not in the props you make use of.
- Luke Jermay
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Image of Ry Cooder
You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.
- Ry Cooder
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Image of Ron Suskind
A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.
- Ron Suskind
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Image of Bennie Thompson
Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.
- Bennie Thompson
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Image of James Henry Hammond
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.
- James Henry Hammond
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Image of Jonathan Gottschall
Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.
- Jonathan Gottschall
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Image of David Harvey
Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.
- David Harvey
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Image of John Kao
Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the other musicians and that the audience enjoys. You cannot do that without first acquiring skills.
- John Kao
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Image of John Kao
Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.
- John Kao
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Image of Strive Masiyiwa
Entrepreneurship without skills limits your growth potential.
- Strive Masiyiwa
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Image of John Doerr
The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.
- John Doerr
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Image of Michael Ellsberg
In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.
- Michael Ellsberg
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Image of David Shenk
Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.
- David Shenk
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Image of Verghese Kurien
India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals
- Verghese Kurien
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Image of Arlene Blum
Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.
- Arlene Blum
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Image of Charles Jennings
We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.
- Charles Jennings
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Image of Blake Roney
I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.
- Blake Roney
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