Skills Quotes
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About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
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To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.
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Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
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[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.
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That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.
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The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.
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We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.
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Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
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From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
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The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.
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It's definitely a possibility and something that I am currently trying to look into. Hopefully the skills competition will open up more avenues for me and I can make more contacts out there.
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A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
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The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.
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I'm just a guy that is basically depending on my responsibility skills. I'm really responsible with my children and my wife and my family life. Things have changed with me. I'm not a night person anymore. I've got too many responsibilities to play.
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The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.
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Training and learning a new skill is all about repetition. With this in mind be careful not to get repetitive to the point of boredom. A coach's challenge is to find ways of doing similar skills differently
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THERE WERE THREE SKILLS that Miss Emily Fairfield had found necessary in her current position in life: lying, smuggling, and - most important of all - scaling walls. It was the last she’d put to use at the moment.
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As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
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Joe is a thoroughbred. He has all the talent and skills it takes to be a champion.
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In the Roman psyche the East had long been a place of danger, but also a place of plenty. The first Emperor Augustus famously said of Rome that he found a city built in brick but left it in marble – all that money had to come from somewhere. India was repeatedly described in Roman sources as a land of unimaginable wealth. Pliny the Elder complained that the Roman taste for exotic silks, perfumes and pearls consumed the city. ‘India and China and Arabia together drain our Empire. That is the price that our luxuries and our womankind cost us.’ It was the construction of the Via Egnatia and attendant road-systems that physically allowed Rome to expand eastwards, while the capture of Egypt intensified this magnetic pull. Rome had got the oriental bug, and Byzantium, entering into a truce with the Romans in 129 BC following the Roman victory in the Macedonian Wars that kick-started Gnaeus Egnatius’ construction of the Via Egnatia, was a critical and vital destination before all longer Asian journeys began.
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There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
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Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.
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Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.
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The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.
