Life Skills Quotes

• Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Attitude, Men, Skills

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• At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Kids, Skills

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• If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

  Josh Lanyon

  Thinking, Objectivity, Skills

  Josh Lanyon (2011). “Come Unto These Yellow Sands”, p.21, Samhain Publishing

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• Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

  Bret Morrison

  Communication, Skills, Empowering

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• Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Maturity, Skills, Long

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• We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Thinking

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• When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Skills, Understanding Knowledge

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

  Jamie Oliver

  Reading, Writing, School

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• Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.

  Sharon Lechter

  Children, Skills, Grandparent

  FaceBook post by Sharon Lechter from Oct 04, 2013

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• Why can't it be a curriculum? Why can't it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.

  Gordon Ramsay

  School, Thinking, Skills

  Source: variety.com

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• Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivational, Father, Skills

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• Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

  Meryl Streep

  Play, Skills, Acting

  Barnard College Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Real, Artist, Skills

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

  Young Jeezy

  Thinking, Skills, People

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• Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

  Meryl Streep

  Skills, Pretending, Valuable

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• Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Skills, Slavery

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

  Martha Beck

  Skills, Grace, Dull

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• Skateistan's not just about skating. It’s giving people life skills and hope for the future.

  Tony Hawk

  Skills, People, Giving

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• A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

  Martin Heidegger

  Giving

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?

  William Katt

  Skills, Cooking, Needs

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• When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills to really getting over my dad's death. If I didn't have that, I would have lost it.

  Anthony Pettis

  Dad, Self, Skills

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• I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Teacher, Teaching

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Swimming has given me a lot. It's given me a respect for people and different cultures around the world when I've been competing abroad. I've learnt many life skills and met so many friends around the world that I might not have had otherwise. I'm focused and driven and I guess swimming has made me that way.

  Liam Tancock

  Swimming, Skills, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Education does loads of things for girls that wont surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

  Richard E. Robbins

  Girl, Self Esteem, Skills

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• Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

  Martina McBride

  Thinking, Skills, May

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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