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“It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.”

Can Do Achieve Skills Achievement Perception Judgement Acquire Faculty

Author:Stephen Spender

“The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.”

Long Term Team Keys Skills Long Term Acquire Marketplace Great Team Leadership Skills Long Term Success

Author:JR

“To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.”

Stories Term Gratitude Skills Acquire Resentment Truthful Thanksgiving Gifts Of Life

Book:Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Source: Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“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

“One of the things I do tell young women, if they want to pursue a career in acting, is to get good stage training. It is essential to have a good basis in stage technique. You can move into film easily, and acquire more skill and more understanding, but you can't necessarily go the other way around. For women, longevity of career will very much be on stage.”

Ifs Way Want Film Moving Young Understanding Acting Careers Stage Skills Essentials Training Bases Technique Pursue Acquire Longevity Young Women

Author:Kathleen Turner

“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

“When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Children Enough Positive Thinking College Skills Our Children Intelligence Critical Acquire Critical Thinking

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.”

People Thinking Giving Has Beens Made Matter Order Opportunity Wish Leadership Study Skills Training Independent Management Data Acquire Initiative Independent Thinking

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“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.”

Children Social Skills Adults Strategy Errors Trials Acquire Interaction Trial And Error Social Skills

Author:Zick Rubin

“[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.”

Made Father Skills Equality Acquire Women Equality

Author:P. D. James

“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”

Writing War Ends Mother Courses Given Class Imagine Months Birth Skills Prepared Complexes Notion Nine Absurd Acquire Composition Naive Nine Months

Author:Mary Blakely

“There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.”

People Next Ability Cases Months Kings Skills Diversity Program Opening Variety Range Acquire Fascinated Physicians Pathology

Author:Samuel Wilson

“The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something that they do not really wish to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue. We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do.”

Country Character Fighting Wish Achieve Skills Demand Standards Bottom Acquire Live By Consumerism Environmentalism Overconsumption Standards Of Living Robbery Robbing

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Long Made Use Certain Opportunity Community Responsibility Doors Awareness Skills Demand Long Time Advantage Decided Made It Acquire Cracks Long Time Ago

Author:Angela Davis

“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.”

Persons Art Ideas Hands Practice Struggle Return Skills Ethics Rewards Western Endure Related Boredom Acquire Work Ethic Eastern

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“At times we are thrown suddenly into positions that seem too big for us and for which we have little preparation. The Lord stimulates our growth this way.... The Lord blesses us far beyond our natural ability and experience. However, it has been my experience that he expects us to quickly exert ourselves and acquire the things we need. He gives us a little time to improve our management skills and detailed knowledge so that we don't have to rely upon him for everything. We'll always need inspiration in these areas we couldn't possibly understand without his help.”

“Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.”

Born Skills Acquire Someday Murphy Cuffs

Author:Michael Pena

“That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.”

Natural Stage Skills Comfortable Nervous Acquire Performers

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons a year need such an operation if they are to survive. How is the surgeon's scarce resource to be allocated? Charge whatever price is necessary to adjust supply and demand, say $50,000! 'For shame,' some will cry. 'Your market system will save only wealthy people.' For the moment, yes. But soon there will be hundreds of surgeons who will acquire the same skill; and, as in the case of the once scarce and expensive 'miracle drugs,' the price then will be within reach of all.”

“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.”

“By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit.”

Matter Spirit Purpose Individual Share Subjects Emotional Needed Activity Skills Method Familiar Acquire Subject Matter Saturated

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.”

Certain Born Skills Acquire

Author:Ry Cooder

“Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and education and ability and skills that some people may not be fortunate enough to acquire. But by sharing and inquiring, being a listener, and being interested in the stories of other people and their lives, I can also pull things out and say "What can I do for them? What can I share with them that may alleviate some of their suffering?"”

People Feels May Persons I Can Enough Stories Suffering Ability Groups Share Skills Resources Fortunate Acquire Listeners Alleviate Inquiring

Author:Chath Piersath

“In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.”

Character Class Technology Skills Management Productions China Acquire Socialist Advanced Technology Management Skills

Author:Deng Xiaoping

“As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.”

People Ifs World Real Moving Reading Ability Skills Scary Complexity Acquire Real World Subtlety Moving Out

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.”

Trying Moments Judging Balance Skills Acquire Stopping Old Fashioned Slow Down Noticing Slowing

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)”

Causes Attention Scene Skills Crosses Males Attractive Acquire Reluctant Unwanted Attractive Woman

Author:Sandra Brown

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”

Difficult Leadership Simple Learning Skills Patience Acquire Difficult Things Simple Things Having Patience Life Patience Great Patience Short Patience

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it to her list of useful skills she needed to acquire along with hand-to-hand combat and the recipe for pesto. If her life were to continue on its present track which after 26 years of obscurity, now seemed to mainly involve people trying to kill her, it would appear that acquiring a less savory skill set might be necessary. Although she supposed pesto making ought to be termed 'more savory'.”

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Author:Gail Carriger

“Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.”

Knows Moments Use Today Values Deals Knowledge Pieces Tomorrow Skills Acquire Recalls

Author:Mark Van Doren

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