Skills Quotes - Page 8

• Music is about communication, creativity, and cooperation, and by studying music in schools, students have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives, and experience the world from a new perspective.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Creativity, School

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• The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Home, Past

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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• Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More

  Tom Peters

  Attitude, Train

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.507, Vintage

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• To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S. workers. The combination of domestic reforms and NAFTA-related growth in Mexico will keep more Mexicans at home. It is likely that a reduction in immigration will increase the real wages of low-skilled urban and rural workers in the United States.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Home, Growth

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• We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

  Jack Kemp

  America, Immigration, Talent

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• The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.

  Barack Obama

  America, People, Broken

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• We must return immigration to a logical, orderly process where people fill out their applications and wait for approval. We must make sure illegal immigrants stop storming our borders. We must establiesh the correct criteria, such as our need for certain job skills or education, for granting the right to immigrate into the United States.

  Ross Perot

  Jobs, People, Waiting

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• In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number of new jobs created by our economy. Something is fundamentally wrong when we have millions of American citizens and legal residents begging for jobs, and yet we are admitting thousands and thousands of immigrants a year with virtually no consideration to our employment needs or their employment skills.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Government, Years

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• The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

  George Washington

  Encouragement, Home, Mean

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

  William Cowper

  War, Doing Nothing, Deals

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 192

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• Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

  Bret Morrison

  Communication, Empowering, Available

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• All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.

  Jerry Lynch

  Athlete, Loss, Improvement

  Jerry Lynch (2001). “Creative Coaching”, p.192, Human Kinetics

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• It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

  Lynn Davies

  Athlete, Knowing, Taught

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• When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Integrity, Believe

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• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

  Lewis Mumford

  Sports, Order, Heroism

  "Technics and Civilization" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 6, (sct. 11), 1934.

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• Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Opportunity

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• Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Goal

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• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  Patrick MacGill

  Soldier, Luck, Luck And Skill

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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• People have a pathway to citizenship right now: It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Jobs, Law, People

  "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan" by David Welna, www.npr.org. February 21, 2013.

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• Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

  Dale Carnegie

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Technology

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• Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Congratulations, Missing, Trials

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

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• Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Educational, Health

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

  Hugh Mackay

  Education, Reading, Writing

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• Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Science, Intelligent, Hands

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