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“The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.”

Thinking Want Littles Play Kids Today Sports Waiting Practice Missing Skills Organized Dropping Tournaments Puck

Author:Bobby Orr

“The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.”

Ifs Play Kids Impossible Havens Skills Hockey Skating Skater

Author:Liev Schreiber

“I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.”

I Can Real Play Skills Six Musician Guitar Intuitive Chords Technical Skills

Author:Patti Smith

“'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.”

Play Voice Half Dog Wall Skills Hundred Instruments Enthusiasm Tunes Pens Stolen Cupboards Dog Days

Author:Florence Welch

“Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.”

Wells Play Courses Winning Loses Skills Tennis Thinker Win Or Lose Great Tennis

Author:Venus Williams

“A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.”

People Play Use Social Technology Skills Invisible Abandon Plugs Social Skills

Author:Howard Rheingold

“Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.”

Book Play Skills Cinema

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play.”

Thinking Play Roles Minutes Ten Skills Mood Psychological Makeup Veteran Recognise Campus

Book:Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader

Source: Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader

“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

“Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn’t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.”

Ifs Men Way Want Should Writing I Can Play Might Girl Wife Please Skills Like Me Goods Should I Polished Harps Other Girl Flutes I Can Read

Author:Juliet Marillier