Skills Quotes - Page 11

• The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Thinking, Numbers

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• From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

  George W. Bush

  Art, Views, Imagination

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• I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Business, Opportunity

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• In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Play, Soul, Age

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Communication, Past, Personality

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• Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills' - 'Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me' - 'Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from. Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives

  Alan Greenspan

  Lying, Moving, Ignorance

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• In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Forgotten, Tradition

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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• I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family, in school, and at work. The real challenge is to show that emotional intelligence matters over-and-above psychological constructs that have been measured for decades like personality and IQ. I believe that emotional intelligence holds this promise.

  Peter Salovey

  Real, Believe, Home

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• Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Self, Volunteer, World

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• I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

  Joey Cheek

  Sports, Fall, Thinking

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• How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

  Henry Wotton

  Truth, Honesty, Armor

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• A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles.

  Derek Cooper

  Doe, Politics, Newborn

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Appreciation, Art, Flower

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• Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

  Jim Dunnigan

  Military, War, Enormous Quantities

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• I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.

  Aubrey Newman

  Jobs, Military, Boys

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• This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have knowledge and business linked together you will grow well, you go further down the innovative path and actually you create more and more jobs. Those jobs will only be available for people with skills but they will be real sustainable employments. That is how important innovation is.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Jobs, Real, College

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• The new Bournville College is not only a magnificent building and a great landmark but a source of pride for Longbridge and its communities. The College will no doubt help provide the education, skills and confidence that is so desperately needed to uplift and develop the lives of so many living in Longbridge and surrounding areas.

  Waqar Azmi

  Uplifting, Pride, College

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• Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Creativity, Average, Practice

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• The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back

  Lloy Ball

  Leadership, Volleyball, Hard Work

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• Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.

  Kim Du-han

  Hurt, Drama, Pride

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• It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages, because it helps you then develop skills. But at some point in your career, generally I think when you are in your teens, you look in a mirror and you have to say, despite all the bumps and warts, "I like that person I'm looking at, and let's just do our best."

  Robert Ballard

  Teacher, Best Love, Growing Up

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• Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

  Frank H. T. Rhodes

  Friendship, Trust, May

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• What is the most overrated skill for an entrepreneur? The most overrated skill is skill. Luck is more important. The entrepreneur gets credit for being this genius, when really he was just at the right place at the right time.

  Ken Hendricks

  Business, Entrepreneur, Luck

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• And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.

  William Harvey

  Life, Sleep, Science

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