Skill Quotes
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Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.
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When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
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Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.
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The will must be stronger than the skill.
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I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
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No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
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It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
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The great advantage the telephone possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a “superpower” built by American technology and skill.
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Successful leaders view the journey more like the captain of a sailboat, relying on their skill and know-how, but knowing all along that the wind (help from other sources) is the force that will get them to their destination.
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I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.
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Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don't know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?
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France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.
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A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still
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I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.
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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.
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It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.
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Any manual skill gives its practitioner much personal pleasure, particularly when it is one that admits of constant improvement.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.
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It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.
