Skills Quotes
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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 believe in yogurt because it’s creamy and a good use of milk that would otherwise go sour. Think about it: Where does all the sour milk go? That goes for people too. Not that we ferment, though I guess we do lactate, but everyone has skills and desires that go unused and unmet, and they sour. How can we make yogurt of these soured attributes? How do we make something delicious, how do we salvage them? I was like, dude, how in the world did you manage to bring human lactation into your oral report? If I ever said anything half that creative, half that unusual, my best friends would divorce my ass. How can a guy be so comfortable with being weird?
Bill Konigsberg
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Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence - skills successful leaders share.
Avery Johnson
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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.
Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club
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Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.
Molly Ivins
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You know, I think that overall I learned to be a better listener to develop my listening skills and to be more patient. And to just take negative energy and channel it into positiveness and better yourself.
Camile Velasco
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Action is just one of my skills.
Hiroyuki Sanada
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Most women at some point or many points in their lives will have to deal with an unwanted advance and having the confidence to be "rude" and say no is an important skill to develop.
Emily Yoffe
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Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.
Darold Treffert
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When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do that," but I'm actually a very skilled artist. That's why I released a Jack Nicholson portrait right after that that was very detailed in the face to show my skills.
Alec Monopoly
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The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.
Hanan al-Shaykh
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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.
Adrien Broner
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If you didn't have power, you had to have touch and serve and volley, which I found very exciting and that's why I love watching Federer play, because of those skills.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
Satish Kumar
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The radio voice, you're in the studio, there's nobody around, and you're using your personality and enunciation skills to get the message across. At the stadium, there are vendors, there are people, the fans talking to each other. It's very difficult. If you were to speak as a radio disk jockey, no one would ever understand what you're saying.
Charlie Brotman
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Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty
Darren Gough
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Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.
Bret Morrison
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Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering.
Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.
Paul Krugman
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Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
Anthony Robbins
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For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with.
Edgar Davids
