Paul Coffey Quotes

I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Feeling
  • Light
  • Door

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • You
  • Poverty

• Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • History
  • Spanish
  • France

• I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Trying
  • I Can
  • Skills

• When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • School
  • Book
  • Skills

• The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Player

• I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Bad
  • Things
  • Skills

• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Lesson

• If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Time
  • Skills
  • Fitness

• The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Intelligence
  • Skills
  • Others

• Continue to study and learn new skills.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Study
  • Learn
  • Skills

• Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Lesson
  • Bashfulness
  • Matron`s

• My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self - my intuition.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Business
  • Intuition
  • Skills

• The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • History
  • Financial

• There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Views
  • Skills
  • Point Of View

• Programs like ACE’s Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Design

• Lesson one: If you're ever in a beautiful cathedral, take your hat off!

  

  Benjamin Kowalewicz Billy Talent
  • Lesson
  • Hat
  • Cathedral

• I think it's a great thing to hear the author reading. I've listened to CDs of Cheever and Updike reading their stories and Hemingway. To hear what their voices were like is amazing. Whether they're reading well or not, it's great to listen to the intonation and the beat of the guy who wrote the story.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure? When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight, As lands and cities, with their glittering spires, To the poor shatter'd bark by sudden storm Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there? Will toys amuse? No: thrones will then be toys, And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Spirits
  • Toys
  • Skies

• From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Wanted
  • Painter
  • Copies

• Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

  

  Beck
  • Band
  • Even
  • Contacts

• I was a natural skater, but I also took private lessons to enhance my skills.

  

  Paul Coffey
  • Skills
  • Lesson
  • Skater