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• We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  War, Army, Government

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• Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

  Daley Thompson

  Weakness, Favour, Sometimes

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• From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

  Lee Iacocca

  School, Positive Thinking, Priorities

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.21, Bantam

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• My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Divorce, Successful, Emotional

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• I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set; you’re tearing into the numbers, you’re valuing the businesses, you’re assigning a consolidated value, and hopefully you’re seeing something the market doesn’t see.But now I’ve learned that there’s a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

  James Chanos

  Fall, Thinking, Differences

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• Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as professional photographers when theres everything thats professional photographers. Certainly theres varying levels of skills but we didnt want to have a Flickr Pro anymore. We wanted everyone to have professional quality photo space and sharing.

  Marissa Mayer

  Space, Quality, Cameras

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• Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.

  Ivan Illich

  Kindness, People, Whim

  Ivan Illich (1972). “Institutional inversion”

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• The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Successful, Years, Entrepreneur

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• Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves

  Phyllis Chesler

  Reliance

  Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”

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• A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

  Bill Crawford

  Meaningful, Want, Life Is

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• I'm a singer, not a vocal stylist. My breathing is correct; my enunciation is precise. Because of that, I can sing anybody's music. Yet there are stylists whose technical skills are so underdeveloped they can sing only their own songs their own way. They might be remembered for their hits longer than I am. I'll probably be working longer than they are. I can sing whatever the times and the trends demand.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Song, Breathing, Demand

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• Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Sea, Intellectual, Information

  Address at University of Exeter, October 26, 1978.

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• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  Galen Rowell

  Artist, Important, Different

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• It's lacrosse that helped teach me to spin off checks, take shots and protect the puck under pressure. My stick skills, the way to read the play quickly comes from lacrosse. The hand-eye coordination, is just one of the little things that helps you in hockey.

  John Tavares

  Eye, Hockey, Hands

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• I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

  Iris Chang

  Historical, Gathering, Research

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• You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.

  R. Scott Bakker

  War, Mean, Dark

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.369, The Overlook Press

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• Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.

  Jim Kolbe

  Compassion, Listening To Others, People

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• Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Personal History, Compare

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• It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Army, Making Love, Hundred

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• The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Effort, Mind, World

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• I’ve come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business—and life—skill sets you’ll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like. Careers—in every imaginable field—work the same

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Believe, Careers, People

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.19, Crown Business

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• Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

  Yann Tiersen

  Play, Sound, Use

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• Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

  Thomas Piketty

  Long, Favors, Force

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

  Lynn Dickey

  Skills Training, Degrees, Students

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• People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

  Marvin Bower

  People, Personality, Should

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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