Skills Quotes - Page 9

• Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

  Louis C. K.

  Fathers Day, Running, Home

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• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

  Alistair Cooke

  Ambition, Golf, Stupidity

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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• It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

  John F. Kennedy

  Golf, Hands, Secret

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity is a portion of almost all of us, but that we can contribute from the storehouse of our skills to the enrichment of our common life.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Acceptance, Genius, Mediocrity

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• There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.

  Jim Bush

  Educational, Data, Skills Training

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• Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.6, SIU Press

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• Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

  Nido R Qubein

  Teacher, Teaching, People

  Nido R. Qubein (1996). “Achieving Peak Performance: A Step by Step System to Grow a Well Trained, Educated, and Motivated Team for the 21st Century”, Bestsellers Publishing

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• In the playoffs will beats skill.

  Kevin Constantine

  Hockey, Nhl, Beats

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• Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military, Victory, Citizens

  Commander in Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC) Communique No. 3 after the Battle of Midway, June 6, 1942.

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• The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm's way within the next year or two. It is up to us to impart to them the talent and skill they need to accomplish their mission in a world-class fashion and at the same time make sure we get them back safely to the families that love them.

  William R. Looney III

  Fashion, Military, Years

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• With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.

  Joe Gold

  Ambition, Persistence, Trying

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• [Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts think if their arm is bent a little it doesn't matter, but Nemov understands it matters.

  Peter Vidmar

  Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

  Samuel Hynes

  Writing, Airplane, Flying

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• A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Wisdom, Army

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.829, Delphi Classics

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• I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Play, Balls

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• Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Needs, Succeed

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• The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save lives and to rebuild communities. In this they joined countless people around the world who volunteer every day in response to 'silent crises'. These often unsung heroes understand all too well that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis.

  Kofi Annan

  Hero, Helping Others, Past

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• At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.

  Parminder Nagra

  Hard Times, Cameras, Balls

  Interview by Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.

  Eli Broad

  Running, Work, Issues

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• My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used.

  Milton Friedman

  People, Greed, Scarcity

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• As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Moving, Writing

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• Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.

  Judith Viorst

  Letting Go, Dream, Growing Up

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• It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

  Gelett Burgess

  Blood, Games, Play

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

  Max Lerner

  Knowledge, Men, Add

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