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“Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.”

Men Character Political Economy Industry Activity Skills Property Ballots

Author:Booker T. Washington

“A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.”

Thinking Art Matter Beautiful Emotion Industry Discipline Taste Skills Art Is Proportion Works Of Art Beautiful Thoughts

Book:The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

“Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.”

Ready Industry Taste Skills Prepared Acquire Honey Select Drones Plagiarism Hives

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience.”

Humans Stills States Use Materials Industry Fit Skills Labor Intelligent Active Rude Convenience Brutes Unfinished

Book:The philosophical works of David Hume

Source: The philosophical works of David Hume

“Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable.”

Thinking Knows Trying Ends Play Games Knowing Industry Skills Waste Photograph Tendencies Celebrate The End Of The Day Wasting Time Input Thirsty And At The End Of The Day Dunces

Author:Olivia Wilde

“I came into the industry as an actor. And moved on to become a star with the help of my dancing skills.”

Helping Actors Stars Industry Skills Moved Dancing Moved On

Author:Mithun Chakraborty

“My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.”

Believe Different I Believe Mistake Situation Industry Activity Skills Limits Projects Understood Investing Backgrounds Spheres My Mistakes Background Knowledge

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“A successful solution to the client's design needs requires a collaboration of my skills, talents and knowledge with the client's information base, history in their industry and personality.”

Needs Successful Talent Information Design Personality Industry Skills Solutions Collaboration Clients

Author:Jeff Fisher

“An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill”

Needs Materials Industry Skills Customers Selling Patents Raw Materials

Book:Marketing Myopia

Source: Marketing Myopia

“In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .”

Mind Industry Skills Productions Soil

Book:The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.”

Culture Individual Industry Skills Illusion Management Investment Aberration Investment Management

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.”

Children Use Able Certain Teach Industry Skills Our Children Eras Education System

Author:Naveen Jain

“So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.”

People Ifs World Way Passion Pay Support Talent Inspire Industry Skills Creating Ideals Paid Bills Best Way Ideal World Creating Change

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and behaviors they need to be effective in getting things done, we tell them almost the opposite - blandishments about how we wish people would be, and how we wish workplaces were. That information is worse than useless as, to the extent people believe it, they often wind up losing their jobs.”