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• Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.

  Alexander Crum Brown

  Hands, Branches, Language

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• Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Hands, Bridges

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• To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjöld, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace.

  Albert Lutuli

  War, Men, Community

  "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.

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• Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Long, Stopping

  "The fashion stars of Central Saint Martins". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2010.

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• I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

  Bill Buckner

  Daughter, Mother, Acting

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• I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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• It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sex, Attitude, Differences

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• We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

  Chief Dan George

  Beautiful, Taken, Native American

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• You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.

  Nicki Minaj

  Hate, Don't Like Me, I Hate You

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• The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

  J. B. Priestley

  Science, Civilization, Energy

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• My attitude going into training camp as a rookie was to impress. I wanted to impress my teammates, my coaches, the owners, everybody. I wanted them to say, ?This kid is special. This kid has the right mind, the right skills, the right motivation?.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivation, Attitude, Kids

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• I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Funny, Smart, Survival

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• Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets.
  Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King.
  Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship.
  Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business.
  Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Kings, Islamic

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• I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

  Drew Brees

  Football, Inspiration, Nfl

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• Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Luck, Trying

  Richie Benaud (2015). “Remembering Richie”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Native American, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

  Justin Kan

  Smart, Careers, People

  "10 Smart Quotes From ‘Innovation Uncensored’ Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

  Winston Churchill

  Inevitable, Know How, Knows

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• In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

  Wendell Berry

  Work, Intelligent, Intellectual

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.26, Counterpoint

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• I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

  Landon Pearson

  Children, Mean, Survival

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• Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

  Barack Obama

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Self

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• Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Crafts

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2015). “Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

  Bergen Evans

  Writing, Confusion, Obscurity

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• When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication; and many; whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly, or at best inconsistently.

  Eric Partridge

  Writing, Maturity, Hands

  Eric Partridge (2003). “You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies”, p.54, Routledge

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