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“Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better, not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills Over time, [meditators'] brains become finely tuned willpower machines.”

Self Asks Brain Skills Machines Wide Range Get Better Self Control Willpower Meditating It Gets Better

Author:Kelly McGonigal

“I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time.”

Awareness Skills Grateful Performers

Author:Nicholas Young

“I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Art School Young Teach Ought Skills Art Is All Things Regard Young Man Preacher Temperament Music In Schools

Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.”

Firsts Decision Skills Executives Making Decisions

Book:Management

Source: Management

“When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.”

Jobs Interest Cases Skills Performances Diligence

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.”

Men Art Artist Lost Challenges Awareness Taste Offers Skills Competition Instinct Simplicity Appetite Relish

Author:Jacques Barzun

“I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.”

Ifs Long Important Character Three Enjoy Answers Attitude Amount Skills Research Asking Conviction Legs Lasting Stools Long Lasting

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.”

Thinking Used Process Creativity Information Skills Mathematics Insight Acquire Lateral Thinking Restructuring

Book:Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

Source: Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”

“I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.”

Hard Wanted Film Young Purpose Walks Clear Walking Directors Skills Theater Victim Sticks Torture Hard Times Killers Brutal Young Women Spine Creeks Credentials Tracking Mutilation

Author:Roger Ebert

“At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.”

“I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.”

People Knows Certain Watches Style Skills Visuals Seconds

Author:J. J. Abrams

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .”

People Ifs Needs Made Shows Our Lives Imagine Taught Skills Guides

Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.”

Knows Want Two Opinion Skills Ignorant Two Things Betray Timidity Audacity

Book:The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

Source: The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

“It requires less skill to love than to be loved.”

Author:Robin Skelton

“I don't think you necessarily have to be the most perfected performer, in order to express your feelings. It's really those feelings that an audience connects with, I think, at least as much as perfected technical skill.”

Thinking Feelings Order Audience Skills Performers Technical Skills

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.”

Feels Feelings Actors Terrible Directors Skills Uncomfortable

Author:Ben Kingsley

“It [RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE] has definitely been the biggest learning curve for me. As an actor, whenever I start on a movie, different things that I perform in ask for different skill sets. And this one is definitely the technological side of it. You have to hit your mark. You can't weave back and forth because your nose is jutting at you in 3-D. It's really been learning how to do that and also it's exciting to be on the forefront of this technology.”

Different Evil Actors Asks Sides Technology Skills Exciting Mark Noses Different Things Afterlife Technological Curves Back And Forth Residents Learning Curve Resident Evil

Author:Ali Larter

“As long as you have a set of beliefs or lack of skills that make you feel you have at the effect of life, you're going to have enormous stress and the quality of your life will go down.”

Feels Long Belief Quality Effects Skills Stress Enormous

Author:Tony Robbins

“Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.”

Writing Book Different Done Television Skills Harder Writing A Book

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.”

Knows Process Education Study Skills Method Rivals

Author:Sara Genn

“Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.”

Humans Art Sometimes Expression Skills Degrees Art Is Universal Mirrors

Author:Sara Genn

“Some artists approach their 'why?' intuitively, and work toward giving it a voice through their technical skill. Others begin as technicians, and develop, or discover, their 'why?' as they become stronger communicators.”

Giving Artist Voice Skills Approach Stronger Technicians Communicators Technical Skills

Author:Sara Genn

“The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.”

Artist Ability Class Skills Draws Determine Drawing Academic Curriculum Workshops

Author:Igor Babailov

“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.”

Thinking Found One Day Skills Drawing Driving New Skills

Book:Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence

Source: Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence

“You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.”

Way Mind Hands Artist Fall Sleep Brain Too Much Dangerous Danger Skills Smart Ease Giants Criticize Facility Dangerous Things

Author:John French Sloan

“The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.”

Giving Self Dream Passion Leadership Leader Inspire Skills Pursue Our Dreams Inspiring Leader Best Self Most Inspiring

Author:Carmine Gallo

“Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.”

Thinking Way Ability Numbers Creativity Talent Depends Skills Capacity Including Dry Spells New Ways Technical Skills

Author:Teresa Amabile

“If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.”

Ifs Needs Challenges Leadership Levels Leader Balance Skills Strikes Bored Frustrated

Author:Teresa Amabile

“People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.”

People Care Work Creative Skills Stretching

Author:Teresa Amabile

“Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.”

Knows Art Today Culture Produce Skills Mass Aim Consuming Moron Mass Culture

Author:Matthew Collings

“There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.”

Skills Critics Tested

Author:Allison Mackie

“Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.”

Trying Wells Stills Reading Easy Difficult Rooms Skills Improvement Room For Improvement

Author:Chris Hayes

“A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.”

Stories Skills Unique Scientist Insight Fantastic Data

Author:DJ Patil

“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.”

People Humans Book Social Brain Succeed Skills Smart Concepts Chess Human Society Calculus Kidneys Social Skills

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work”

Artist Felt Audience Fields Skills Possession Substitutes Endeavor Superiority Great Art Priceless Great Artist

Author:Paul LePaul

“To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.”

Author:Anthony Marais

“If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.”

Ifs Important Body Amount Involved Periods Skills Cancer Medical Your Body Consideration Maximum Vitamins

Author:Ernst T. Krebs

“Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.”

Technology Century Source Skills Capitalism Advantage Foundation Ideology 21st Century Shaking Strategic Skills And Knowledge

Author:Lester Thurow

“There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills, blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - the mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting, because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can’t control it.”

“Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.”

People Problem Strong Brain Source Truth Is Skills Deception Organized Devoted Mislead Bewildered

Book:A Preface to Politics

Source: A Preface to Politics

“Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.”

Life Life Is Turns Games Chance Air Skills Complicated Devices Defeated Liable Descent Thistles

Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.”

World Made Past Found Effort Rich Mystery Skills Technique Within You Our Past Everlasting Your Past

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.”

Ifs Form Perfect Numbers Skills Stress Accents Formal Rhyme Puzzles Syllables Crosswords

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.”

Skills Bars Fake Parenthood

Book:Duma Key: A Novel

Source: Duma Key: A Novel

“How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!”

People Ifs Life Would Be Interesting Skills Interesting Life

Book:Prose Fancies

Source: Prose Fancies

“If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.”

Ifs Ability Focus Skills Just One Muscles Make You Happy

Author:Kate Reardon

“To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.”

Men Kind Military Ready Broken Arms Scene Skills Shadow Staff Dependence Militia Domestic Life

Book:Words of Washington

Source: Words of Washington

“Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.”

Firsts Two Whole Evil Skills Benefits Divides Artificial Rhetoric Utility Attainment

Book:Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

Source: Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

“Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future”