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• I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!

  Jon Heder

  Girl, Hunting, Want

  "Fictional character: Napoleon Dynamite". "Napoleon Dynamite", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• It needs more skill than I can tell
  To play the second fiddle well.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Play, Needs, Wells

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.300, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

  Harlan Ellison

  Passion, Three, Crafts

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

  Chris Martin

  People, Enthusiasm, Rely

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• Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

  Joey Ramone

  Style, Economy

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• True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

  Helen Keller

  Teaching, Reading, Book

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• The ABCs are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

  Gerald Chertavian

  Attitude, Communication, Behavior

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• I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think it's an activity, a skill, something you strive to create. A constant conversation between emotion and imagination and flesh.

  Greg Saunier

  Growing Up, Thinking, Imagination

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• I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Challenges, Challenge Yourself, Bigs

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.

  Amanda Palmer

  Light, People, Darkness

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• You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

  Susan Blackmore

  Real, Heart, Creativity

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• Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Earning

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• History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

  Hilary Mantel

  Narrative

  Source: www.newrepublic.com

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• I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."

  Julie Bowen

  Brother, Zero, Kids

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• You double your intensity with skill.

  Twyla Tharp

  Intensity

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• When I left home, my mum said "Don't forget to write", I thought, "That's unlikely"... It's a basic skill isn't it.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Home

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, People

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• To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Play, Two

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

  Liz Phair

  Giving, Essentials, World

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• Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.

  Lucy Powell

  Government, People, Tough Times

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• Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivation, Technology, Self

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• As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Passion, Writing, Creativity

  "Dan the man". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Character, Giving

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• This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Jobs, People

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