Skills Quotes

• Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• We can and must use our combined skills at every opportunity available to address climate change.

  Jeff Orlowski

  Opportunity, Climate, Use

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• Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Self, Interest, Trade

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• Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Golf, Wish

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• Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.

  Ally Carter

  Secret, Honor

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Skills are really just circuits in your brain

  Daniel Coyle

  Brain, Circuits

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• I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color.

  Maxine Powell

  Successful, Thinking, Color

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• Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.

  Ken Blanchard

  Team, Mean, Empowering

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• Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Important, Achieve

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• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

  Darold Treffert

  Genius, Savants

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

  Douglas Horton

  Simple, Perfection

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• In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. Money and jobs will come and go. Live long enough and your health and body will change. It goes with the territory of being human. The fact that you are still here gives you an advantage. Don't look back. Look straight ahead!! Decide to use all of your knowledge, skills, experiences and your life lessons from your mistakes, defeats and setbacks, to start over again. Life changes. You may not have the same life as before, but you can still enjoy your life!

  Les Brown

  Jobs, Mistake, Life Changing

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• Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Intelligent, Practice, Persistent

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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  A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  Larry Bird

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

  Ry Cooder

  Born, Certain, Acquire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Hard Work, Technology, Simplicity

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• One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly

  Tony Robbins

  Age, Want, Life Is

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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

  Teaching, Bored, Different

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• I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Struggle, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.

  Carmine Gallo

  Leadership, Dream, Passion

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• When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Challenges, Balance, Rewards

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• The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

  Orrin Woodward

  Successful, Attempting, Developing

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• Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Emotional, Compassion, Balance

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• Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 21, 2016

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