Skills Quotes
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You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.
Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club
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Once I had wondered what it would be like to be an adult. I thought, like all children, that adulthood was accompanied by esoteric secrets, complicated insights, mysteriously acquired skills. But it turned out to be very simple: you were exactly the same, you were still a child, but you had to find a way to look after yourself.
Edeet Ravel
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There is life after sports. What we're trying to do is give you some skills to be successful out in the real world. I promise you I will take people to dinner or lunch for interviews, and I will watch how they eat to see if they have proper manners. It tells so much about a person.
Eric Hyman
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Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
Bill Gates
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In the evenings, Sam performs exercises to prepare his body for love-making with Franz. He practices kissing (something he’d once hated) by smooching deer lips, antelope ears, frog anuses, and the great, whiskered muzzles of sleeping bison. He improves his petting skills by necking with juniper bushes and pine tree trunks with such passion that the bark snaps and sap runs, or with such tenderness that the whole forest goes silent and swallows nest in his hair.
Barry Webster
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].
Darrel Ray
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I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion.
Susanna Kearsley
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I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.
Stuart Appleby
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In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.
Rhys Ifans
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I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.
Blake Roney
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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.
Lee Iacocca
