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• Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability enables Walter to communicate with aspiring musicians in a way that removes the sense of mystery that sometimes enshrouds our profession.

  Branford Marsalis

  Successful, Understanding, Musical

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• The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you’re comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.

  Matt Bomer

  Technique, Comfort, Best Experiences

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• Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

  Joel Edgerton

  Jobs, Extras, Bits

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

  Shawn Johnson

  Hurt, Athlete, Thinking

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• I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

  Chris Hughes

  Trying, World, Use

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• Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.

  Aldo Leopold

  Exercise, Sportsmanship, Roles

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.178, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

  Bill Walton

  Bird, Strenght, Magic

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• All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national economies, universities have been coming under pressure to turn themselves into training schools equipping young people with the skills required by a modern economy.

  J. M. Coetzee

  School, Government, People

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• All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Teacher, Challenges, Different

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• To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Ends, Quince

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [108]

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• Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

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• It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

  Peter Tork

  Baseball, Bats, Watches

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• We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

  Mercer Reynolds

  Marketing, Capability

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• My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

  Anthony Doerr

  Sister In Law, Long, Three

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Government, Office

  Comment to General Henry Knox on the delay in assuming office, March 1789.

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• Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

  Carl Rogers

  Struggle, Views, Growth

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• Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.

  Clint Dempsey

  Sports, Play, Roles

  "Clint Dempsey, World Cup Star, Credits Jesus For His Success" By Antonia Blumberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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• We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Needs

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• I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can't be taught, it can't be what you use in teaching.

  Robert Lowell

  Teaching, Inspiration, Writing

  Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ideas, Goal, House

  "Late-Period Limbaugh". www.nytimes.com. July 6, 2008.

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• My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Eye, Self

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• A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

  Frank Borman

  Use, Pilots, Judgment

  "Flying Lessons". Federal Aviation Administration, January 08, 2008.

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• Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Eight, Years

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Jobs, Thinking

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