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

• Nutrition doesn't have to be complicated. It goes back to the lessons you learned as a kid. Start with a real breakfast; don't ever skip that. If you're waking up early for a run, make sure you drink at least a glass of water and put something healthy into your stomach before you go out the door.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Real
  • Water

• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Good
  • Love
  • Teach

• He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Man
  • Special

• To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Black
  • Values
  • Diversity

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

  

  Paul Coffey
  • Skills
  • Lesson
  • Skater