Skills Quotes
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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
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I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."
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I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'
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Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.
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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.
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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
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Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
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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.
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Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
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With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That is how you create work. That's the role of the artist - to change the way you view things.
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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
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Teaching people the skills to deal with such distressing physical reactions.
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I've been getting my reel together. I think they are looking at me more as an actress because I have a lot of potential and a lot of skills.
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Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
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But it will be a new test of his coaching skills. . . . He has to find a way to turn around an underachieving team.
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When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.
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All people have their own special skills. Instead of just identifying deficiencies, schools should try to identify and promote those special skills as early on as possible.
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A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.
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Kids are just interested in animals. But it's much more than that. They have certain responsibilities they have to meet, and many want the challenge. It teaches real-life skills. Sports works for some people, something like this works for others.
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I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.
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Once you feel that you've learned some skills and you know how to make records, the next thing is, "Do we ever get to make one that people will really like?" Because then we'll have something to do.
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I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.
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I knew coming into this to fight that this was going to be a world class fight, but I knew he didn’t have the skills to beat me.
