Skills Quotes - Page 5

• I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

  John C. Reilly

  Challenges, Trying, Take Me

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• I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

  Ryan Reynolds

  Class, Parent, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hiding, Ability, Know How

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• But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

  Anita Roddick

  Giving, Balance, Use

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• The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.

  Joe Rogan

  Art, Two, Comedy

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• Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

  Henry Rollins

  Impact, Ideas, Poet

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• In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.

  Christina Romer

  Jobs, War, Competition

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• Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Children, School

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

  John Ruskin

  Sacrifice, Simple, Simplicity

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• Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

  Paul Ryan

  Business, Ideas, Imagination

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• Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Morning

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Color, Ideas

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• We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Compassion, Skills Training

  "How to Get Real Happiness: An Interview with Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

  Rick Santorum

  People, Political, Facts

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• Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Vigor, Literature, Convincing

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• The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

  Liev Schreiber

  Kids, Hockey, Play

  "Liev Schreiber On ‘Goon,’ Ice Hockey And Naomi Watts". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands, and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on... I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.

  Chloe Sevigny

  New York, Hipster, Kids

  "Chloe Sevigny 'describes ideal boyfriend'" by Justin Harp, www.digitalspy.com. December 22, 2010.

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• However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

  Herman Melville

  Baby, Men, Sea

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.190, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Running, Long, Luck

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.58, Random House

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• With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Nice, Eye, Soul

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• I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

  Helen Fielding

  Men, Social, Social Skills

  Helen Fielding (2009). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mean, Perfect, Achieve

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• My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, Sight, Mind

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 17, 2014

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• He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Taken, Fall, Wings

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.122, Delacorte Press

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