“Ive got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim.” RealMightCausesCasesCrazySkillsSwimCatastrophe Author:Theophilus London
“I feel like, if I'm being honest with myself, my biggest skill set is as a writer 'cause I can do that quickly and I'm really grounded in story structure. Part of my success as an actor, is that I know story well. Part of my success as a director, is how well I know story. Same thing, as a producer. It all begins and ends with me as a story creator. But, I love doing it all.” IfsKnowsFeelsWellsI CanEndsStoriesActorsCausesCan DoHonestDirectorsSkillsStructureCreatorProducersBeing HonestGrounded Author:Mark Duplass
“I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.” MenDifferentJobsCausesLuckySkillsChaptersProfessional LifeLucky Man Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.” PeopleIfsProblemMovingWinningCausesLeadershipPrinciplesCreativitySkillsSticksNotionConservativeSolveEnormousRejectsConsensusNeedlesLeadership SkillsGridlock Author:Jeb Bush
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.” ThinkingFirstsBelieveArtMadeReasonPhilosophyAbleEarthHeavenCausesUnderstandingNaturalChanceAtheismEffectsSkillsArt IsEternityInfiniteAtheistFoolishCirclesMade ItBeastFollyFabricCentreHeaven And EarthOysters Author:Jeremy Taylor
“The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.” NeedsCausesModernCenturySkillsConversationComputerPhonesCellsGiantsTransformedImaginary20th CenturyCourtesyNarcissisticCell PhoneUrgencyBreakdownPhonyGadgetsCocoonsAtrophyFaxEscalation Author:Mary Schmich
“If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.” PeopleIfsWantCausesRealizingSkills Book:The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires Source: The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires
“If you are unskilled and uneducated, your job is going south. Skilled workers, educated people are going to do fine ’cause those are the kinds of jobs Nafta is going to create. If we are going to start rewarding no skills and stupid people, I’m serious, let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do - let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.” PeopleIfsKindJobsCausesStupidSeriousFineSkillsSouthWorkersEducatedStupid PeopleUneducatedNaftaSkilled Workers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful, provide more money, and eventually strike at the system-causes of poverty. Government believes that poverty is just a lack of money. We felt, and continue to feel, that poverty is actually a lack of skill, and a lack of the self-esteem that comes with being able to take some part of one's life into one's own hands and work with others towards shared-call them social-goals.” PeopleFeelsBelieveLongSelfHandsGovernmentRunningAbleSocialFeltCausesGoalPoorPovertySelf EsteemSkillsProgramAimStrikesEsteemMore MoneyLong RunsPoor PeopleGet MoneyGovernment ProgramsCauses Of Poverty Author:Karl Hess
“Yeah there's always something different. He's still limited to what he can do - ya know, no super powers, just a high skill set. But they have a cool thing - this time I learn very quickly... um, bow. 'Cause in the first Avengers he had that short bow that cracks open, and then I can crack and close with a staff. So now I'm a master with a staff apparently. I have to learn that today.” KnowsFirstsStillsI CanDifferentTodayCausesCan DoMastersSkillsYeahCracksBowsStaffCool ThingsAvengersSuper Power Author:Jeremy Renner
“I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.” PeopleThinkingLooksHandsEyeJobsLyingCausesAbilityRoomsSuccessfulSkillsDegreesShakesMarketplaceBecoming SuccessfulPeople Skills Author:Dave Ramsey
“''Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian." "Why do you come?" my mother asked. "To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets." "To what end do you work?" "To the cause of justice and light." "How long will you strive?" "For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.” LittlesLongSaidEndsCharacterLightMotherGirlFeltCausesJusticeSecretOur LivesHonorSkillsTablesStriveFinishedOperaSoapAcademyGrandmaSoap OperasEvery GirlMy GrandmaUnisonGallagher Author:Ally Carter
“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)” CausesAttentionSceneSkillsCrossesMalesAttractiveAcquireReluctantUnwantedAttractive Woman Author:Sandra Brown
“You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if you managed to do anything useful again for a long time" This is the Marcus that Tobias knows. The one who knows right where to hit to cause the most damage.” IfsKnowsMayLongDiesGirlCausesSkillsLong TimeLuckDamageShockSimulationTobiasShutting Down Book:Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2) Source: Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)
“My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.” ThinkingMindHelpingAgeCausesEmotionTerribleSkillsSightSurfaceAdulthoodTurbulence Author:Richard Russo