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“The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.”

People Men Should Facts Names Speak Work Wise Skills Intelligent Desperate Modesty Disguise Tag Smart People

Author:Tsugumi Ohba

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

People Knowing Records Like You Skills Pretending

Book:Diary: A Novel

Source: Diary: A Novel

“Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.”

People Ifs Humans Human Beings Special Skills Normal Tricks Subtle Learners

Book:The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

Source: The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

“I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.”

Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

“It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.”

People Thinking Christian Used Understanding Creation Humility Skills Unique Agriculture Stewardship Misuse Irreplaceable

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.”

People Wells Character Quality Communication Skills Communication Skills

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.”

People Desire Easier Skills

Author:Jeff Lindsay

“Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.”

People Eye Natural Healthy Skills Avoiding

Book:Happy Death

Source: Happy Death

“We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of leisure and play. In the United States even poor people have lots of money compared with the wretched and skinny millions of India, Africa, and China, while our middle andupper classes (or should we say "income groups") are as prosperous as princes. Yet, by and large, they have but slight taste for pleasure. Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.”

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“I’d always disparaged the games people played in pursuit of love - or the next hook up. The whole thing was a competition to see who could get how far, and I could never figure out if there was more luck or skill involved, or some unknowable combination of the two. People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.”

People Ifs Said Two Whole Next Games Felt Honest Figures Involved Skills Luck Competition Pursuit Combination Hook Hook Up

Author:Tammara Webber

“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'.”

People Ifs Trying Years Hands Might Doors Ought Needed Skills Picks Track Lists Acquire Combat Locked Locks Recipes Obscurity Resourceful Savory

Author:Gail Carriger

“Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don’t see the need. It’s easier just to have folks explain stuff.”

People Knows Needs Years Book Names Stuff Practice Mines Easier Skills Folks Myth Dumb Greek Annabeth Greek Myth

Book:The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)

Source: The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)

“Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.”

People Feels Kids Skills Impress Impressive

Author:Derren Brown

“What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.”

Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.”

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Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living--and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.”

People Felt Behinds Known Wall Skills Glasses Granted Ease Thick Observers Participants Took For Granted

Author:Tana French

“Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.”

People May Desire Turns Wish Justice Reader Skills Connections Injustice Entertainment Disgusting Agony

Author:Ayi Kwei Armah

“People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.”

People Together Results Skills Married Divorce Planning Preparation Intimate Working Together Divorced Teammate Intimate Relationships After Divorce Marriage Divorce Marriage And Divorce Getting A Divorce

Book:Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married

Source: Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married

“She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.”

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.”

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

“In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.”

“People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support”

People Knows Way Want Leadership Support Skills Gains Communicate

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.”

People Life Writing Different Done Joy Courses Activity Skills Following Enthusiasm Manuals

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.”

People Humans Done Problem Certain Passion Work Human Beings Special Skills Like Me Arrogant Modest Best Work

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.”

Source: Among School Children

“Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.”

People Teach Virtue Teacher Skills Bottom Pyramids Best Teacher Public Education Education And Teachers Teachers And Teaching

Book:Among School Children

Source: Among School Children

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