Qualifications Quotes

• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.56, U of Minnesota Press

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• Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Success, Education, Business

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• I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

  Henry James

  Literature, Adore, Adverbs

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• When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

  James Dean

  Inspirational, Motivational, Following Instructions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

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• People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

  Peter Ustinov

  People, Tree, Bottom

  "International Celebrity Register: U.S. Edition". Book edited by Cleveland Amory, Earl Blackwell and Sydney Wolfe Cohen, 1959.

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• What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

  Harriet Martineau

  Teacher, Teaching, Responsibility

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

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• The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic.

  Henry Ford II

  Strong, Views, Work Ethic

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• There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

  Aristotle

  Loyalty, Government, Justice

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Inspiration, Genuine, Higher

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

  James Payn

  Mistake, Writing, Men

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Memories, Men, Doe

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• The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

  Dave Smalley

  Life, Strong, Acceptance

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• Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Men And Women

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

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• There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

  Nancy Kassebaum

  Education, Teacher, Failure

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• I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

  David Irving

  Academic

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• You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

  Derek Jacobi

  Quality, Actors, Young

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• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  Earl Warren

  Birthday, Children, Heart

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

  Peter Drucker

  Character, Tasks, Genius

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.23, Routledge

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• By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Jobs, School, Creating

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• Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Letters, Remember

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.419, e-artnow

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• Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

  Zaha Hadid

  Jobs, People, Important

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• It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

  George McGovern

  Crowds, Dazzle, Masters

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• The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Years, Mind

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