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  • Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

  • I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.

    Jobs   Military   Boys  
  • Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

    Trust   Moving   Athlete  
    Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.174, Oxford University Press
  • I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.

    Book   Kids   Skills  
    "Jeff Dunham breathes life into his 'friends' - and a lost art". Interview with Bill DeYoung, savannahnow.com. March 3, 2009.
  • To keep demands as much skill as to win.

    Winning   Skills   Demand  
    Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip Krapp (2006). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.141, Courier Corporation
  • Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

    Art   Expression   Skills  
    "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.
  • Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

    "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.
  • Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

    School   Skills   Long  
    Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books
  • Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

  • Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

    Family   Strong   Skills  
  • Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful way that you can. It's not just blurting stuff out and having verbal diarrhea.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

    John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing
  • Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

    Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.73, Workman Publishing
  • Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

    Writing   Skills   People  
  • Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone

  • The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you’re comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.

  • [Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

  • Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

  • Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

    Baseball   Skills   Bats  
  • This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

    Pain   Skills   Names  
  • Things have been invented because of alcohol. Like the taser, okay? Yeah! The morning after pill, okay? The reach-around. Judge Judy. What has pot given the world? Hackey sack? YEAH! Hilarious ring tones? OH GAH! Ultimate Frisbee Championships? It sucks to be a champion at a sport that can't get you laid. It's an unneeded skill like, I dunno, being the best banjo player. Or a squirter.

    Funny   Sports   Morning  
    "Dave Attell: Captain Miserable". Documentary, Comedy, December 08, 2007.
  • I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.

    Skills   Survival   Kind  
  • You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

    "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.
  • As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.

    Betty Edwards (1989). “Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence”, Jeremy P. Tarcher
  • Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.

    Country   Skills   Issues  
  • There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

  • Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

    Art   Skills   Energy  
  • The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us to endure struggle or boredom now in return for future rewards. The Eastern idea of practice, on the other hand, is to create the person, or rather to actualize or reveal the complete person who is already there.... Not only is practice necessary to art, it is art.

    Art   Struggle   Hands  
  • For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like. Women have their own set of skills that are worth exploring and seeing on screen.

    Strong   Believe   Hero  
    Source: collider.com
  • My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

    Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.
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