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  • The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

    "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.
  • If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

    Witty   Dazzle   Baffled  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

    "Archbishop Vincent Nichols voices fears over social networking sites". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.
  • Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

    Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
  • You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.

    Skills   Long   Addresses  
  • I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

    Want   Boring   Social  
  • Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

    Player   Skills   Mad  
    James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon
  • Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

    "Sociability: It's all in your mind". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 24, 2006.
  • There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

    Smart   Book   Skills  
  • Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

    Simple   Skills   Icons  
  • Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

    Animal   Men   Skills  
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.96, Penguin
  • I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just here in Las Vegas. I know we can give them a true passion.

  • I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

    Stars   Night   Rocks  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

    Strong   Party   Home  
  • I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.

  • There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

    Skills   Two   People  
  • What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group.

    Nice   Skills   Careers  
  • I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

    Real   Self Esteem   Kids  
  • Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to discover through trial and error which strategies work and which do not, and later to reflect consciously on what they have learned.

  • I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.

    School   Kids   Thinking  
    Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.
  • It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

    "The Secret Origins Of Professional Cosplayer Yaya Han". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. March 14, 2013.
  • By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.

    Kids   Skills   Acting  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

    School   Skills   Chess  
  • The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

    Color   Skills   Tangled  
    Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau
  • The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

    Strong   Skills   Names  
  • It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

    Children   School   Play  
    "Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.
  • The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143

    Real   Simple   Emotional  
  • He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird

    Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1203, Penguin
  • With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There are so many artists that have been passed by - even though, on paper, they're the most incredibly talented artists, they don't have the social skills to take it outside of the bedroom.

    Artist   Skills   Luck  
  • I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

    Years   Skills   Long  
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