Skill Quotes
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Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.
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People doubted me, said I lacked skill. I'm just trying to stay consistent, use my minutes wisely, and do what I can with the opportunity.
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Having a skill makes you undeniable.
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Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
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The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
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To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.
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I have a skill set that often helps me get through hurtful moments or experiences. However, sometimes when the pain cuts really deep, my normal go-to exercises just won't work.
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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.
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As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more
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Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
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If the investor doesn't have enough time and skill to investigate individual stocks or enough money to diversify a portfolio, the right thing to do is to invest in exchange-traded funds that give you exposure to asset classes. It does make sense for the individual investor to think in terms of holding individual asset classes.
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The good part of what comics trains you to do is it trains you - especially if you've worked in mainstream comics like Marvel and DC, or if you're just doing your own independent comics - to compartmentalize things and work on multiple things at the same time. And that's a skill that is incredibly handy in Hollywood, because within the first year that you get here, you realize there's a reason why every successful person in Hollywood has like seven or eight projects up in the air at any point.
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When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.
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When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.
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I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.
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Telling a joke is like doing a linguistic pirouette. If you fall flat, it means not only that you don't have the wherewithal to do it well but also that you have misjudged your own skill, that you are fool enough to undertake something you can't finish -- and that lack of self-control or self-knowledge is a lack of grace.
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The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in's easy.
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Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
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Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set.
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Also, it's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning, it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system. There are very few people who can withstand the losses emotionally and still stick with the system. Probably only one in five hundred people has the necessary discipline to be successful.
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When change is constant, learning is an essential survival skill.
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The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.
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Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
