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“Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.”

Children Art Self Values Process Ability Creativity Expression Skills Creating Art Is Concerned Discovering Exploring Soar Self Expression

Author:MaryAnn F. Kohl

“A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.”

Real Skills Fellows Lacking Flapjacks

Book:The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft

Source: The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft

“We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.”

Duty Skills Tough Available Introducing Unemployed Shirk

Author:Gordon Brown

“I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.”

Years Able Games Player Skills Six Spending League Coaching Minors Facets

Author:Ryne Sandberg

“The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.”

Doe Ideas Facts Creative Skills Faculty

Author:Arthur Koestler

“A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England”

Faces Skills Balls England Technique Judged Dukes

Author:Tony Greig

“You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.”

People Want Can Do Moral Fire Skills Percent Practise Trainees

Author:Atul Gawande

“The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.”

“Mitt Romney was attacking Obama about our failing education system. He has a point. We are graduating millions of people in this country who are so lacking in basic analytical skills, they are considering voting for Mitt Romney.”

People Country Millions Failing Skills Voting Graduates Considering Lacking Attacking Romney Education System

Author:Bill Maher

“The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.”

Want Needs Children Self Desire Skills Self Improvement Improvement Pushing No Point New Skills

Author:Tony Buzan

“Honestly, being a 5'11 quarterback, not too many people think that you can play in the National Football League. And so for me, you know, I knew that my height doesn't define my skill set, you know? I believed in my talent. I believed in what God gave me. I believed in the knowledge that I have of the game.”

People Thinking Knows Play Games Talent Football Skills Honestly League Height Quarterback

Author:Russell Wilson

“God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I'm 5'11, to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that.”

Believe Reason Able Given I Believe Decision Talent Fields Arms Skills Height

Author:Russell Wilson

“The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.”

People Ifs Feels Should May Grows Creative Growing Up Fine Truth Is Skills Terrorist Smoke Bored Fund Pot Marijuana Be Creative Being Bored New Skills

Author:Trey Parker

“The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.”

“Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. . . Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.”

Long Hard Running Artist Voice Accepting Talent Hard Work Becoming Skills Perseverance Following Long Runs Distinctive Accepting Yourself

Author:David Bayles

“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”

Ifs Want Should Years Long Stills Care Earth Taken Sea Sky Skills Bird Wings Flying Variety Desert Continents Globes Hottest Antarctica Girdles

Author:David Attenborough

“To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.”

Ifs Information Skills Conclusion Meaningless Sensible Evaluate Grids

Book:Risk Pool

Source: Risk Pool

“One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.”

Ifs Poor One Thing Students Skills Cooking Cooks California

Author:Diane Mott Davidson

“I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.”

Writing Skills News Reporters Good News Great Writers

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.”

Ifs Matter Skills Cant

Author:Mark Cuban

“At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mind Firsts States Emotion Comedy Emotional Skills Jokes Intention Starting Adjusting Writing Comedy

Author:Steve Martin

“The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.”

Thinking Important Difficult Ability Skills Difficult Times Find Me

Author:Tony Robbins

“Having a good network can be invaluable. It opens doors for you and allows you to enter into opportunities that are beneficial to your business. In this sense, 'who you know' is undoubtedly important, but to me 'what you know' is more important because once an opportunity shows itself, it is up to you to make the most of it, and this is down to your knowledge and skill.”

Knows Important Shows Opportunity Doors Skills Beneficial Up To You Invaluable Who You Know

Author:Richard Branson

“What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Stories Technology Happened Skills Computer Screens Computer Technology Cgi

Author:Frank Miller

“For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.”

Thinking Helping Creation Students Evolution Exercise Skills Critical Discussion Critical Thinking

Author:Ken Ham

“I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.”

People Thinking Writing Art Skills Agree Components Grammar Art Making

Author:Chris Van Allsburg

“I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.”

Ifs Found Language Skills Journalism Investigative Journalism Language Skills

Author:Julian Assange

“Entrepreneurship without skills limits your growth potential.”

Growth Skills Limits Entrepreneurship

Author:Strive Masiyiwa

“To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowes, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.”

Needs Home Strong Company Skills Size Combination Target Sears Lowes

Author:Edward Lampert

“To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.”

Important Economy Development Skills Prosperity Application Continuing Global Economy

Author:Martin Rees

“You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.”

People Ifs Kind Skills Organization Surround Cant Surround Yourself Surround Yourself With People

Author:Howard Schultz

“Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.”

People Way Want Certain Keys Skills Brands Presentation Presentation Skills

Author:Marc Benioff

“Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.”

Important Sometimes Helping Skills Important Things Good Things Consistently Recognise

Author:Rahul Dravid

“The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.”

Hands Games Ability Stage Skills Balls Lips Aggressive Bowlers

Author:Rahul Dravid

“If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Enough Skills Seasons Cricketers Honing Off Season

Author:Rahul Dravid

“I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.”

Fantasy Skills Areas Relevant Technical Skills

Author:Raf Simons

“We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.”

Mind Humans Lines Technology Shapes Skills Tools Currents Aids Users Back When Tailors Adept

Book:Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

Source: Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

“What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.”

People Community Ability Honesty Skills Empathy Capacity Sense Of Humor Timing Appreciated

Author:M. Scott Peck

“An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.”

People Persons Important Ability Creative Progress Skills Exciting Routes Indispensable Creative People Creative Person Right Questions

Author:Lisa Randall

“The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.”

Ifs Able Opportunity Wonderful Skills Math Good Math Math Skills

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“Pretending is a very valuable life skill.”

Skills Valuable Pretending Life Skills Valuable Life

Author:Meryl Streep

“You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.”

Ifs World Skills Doomed Blueprints

Author:T. Harv Eker

“In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana.”

People Country Jobs Born Company Skills Training Designer Volunteer Ghana Skills Training

Author:Amanda Hearst

“My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.”

Men Real Dad Skills Prove Shots My Dad Impulse Excellent Fishing Hunting Frank Filling Terrific Rifles Real Men Freezer Hunting And Fishing

Author:Steve Albini

“Humor - I see it as a survival skill.”

Skills Survival Survival Skills

Author:Jill McCorkle

“When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.”

Knows Feels Matter Challenges Balance Activity Skills Tasks Strikes Rhythm Performing Pulse Sync

Book:Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

Source: Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

“Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.”

Imagination Creation Skills Asking Core New Skills

Author:Sugata Mitra

“There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.”

People Leader Skills Guides Persuasion Presentation Good Leader Presentation Skills People Skills

Author:Shiv Khera

“People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.”

People Should Two Wish Ability Deals Succeed Skills Should Have Sells

Author:Shiv Khera

“The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.”

Wells Stills Important Guy Levels Environment Skills Intellectual Smart Superiors Enjoyable Work Environment Bandwidth Smart Guy

Author:Kumar Mangalam Birla

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